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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

Name: Python Data Analysis - Third Edition
ISBN: 9781789955248

by Avinash Navlani, Ivan Idris

February 2021

Beginner to intermediate

478 pages

8h 38m

English

Packt Publishing

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Python Data Analysis Third Edition
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Who this book is forWhat this book coversTo get the most out of this bookDownload the example code filesDownload the color imagesConventions usedGet in touchReviews
Section 1: Foundation for Data Analysis
Getting Started with Python Libraries
Understanding data analysisThe standard process of data analysisThe KDD processSEMMA CRISP-DMComparing data analysis and data scienceThe roles of data analysts and data scientistsThe skillsets of data analysts and data scientistsInstalling Python 3Python installation and setup on WindowsPython installation and setup on LinuxPython installation and setup on Mac OS X with a GUI installerPython installation and setup on Mac OS X with brewSoftware used in this bookUsing IPython as a shellReading manual pagesWhere to find help and references to Python data analysis librariesUsing JupyterLabUsing Jupyter NotebooksAdvanced features of Jupyter NotebooksKeyboard shortcutsInstalling other kernelsRunning shell commandsExtensions for NotebookSummary
NumPy and pandas
Technical requirementsUnderstanding NumPy arraysArray featuresSelecting array elementsNumPy array numerical data typesdtype objectsData type character codesdtype constructorsdtype attributesManipulating array shapesThe stacking of NumPy arraysPartitioning NumPy arraysChanging the data type of NumPy arraysCreating NumPy views and copiesSlicing NumPy arraysBoolean and fancy indexingBroadcasting arraysCreating pandas DataFramesUnderstanding pandas SeriesReading and querying the Quandl dataDescribing pandas DataFramesGrouping and joining pandas DataFrameWorking with missing valuesCreating pivot tablesDealing with datesSummaryReferences
Statistics
Technical requirementsUnderstanding attributes and their typesTypes of attributesDiscrete and continuous attributesMeasuring central tendencyMeanModeMedianMeasuring dispersionSkewness and kurtosisUnderstanding relationships using covariance and correlation coefficientsPearson's correlation coefficientSpearman's rank correlation coefficientKendall's rank correlation coefficientCentral limit theoremCollecting samplesPerforming parametric testsPerforming non-parametric tests Summary
Linear Algebra
Technical requirementsFitting to polynomials with NumPyDeterminantFinding the rank of a matrixMatrix inverse using NumPySolving linear equations using NumPyDecomposing a matrix using SVDEigenvectors and Eigenvalues using NumPyGenerating random numbersBinomial distributionNormal distributionTesting normality of data using SciPyCreating a masked array using the numpy.ma subpackageSummary

Section 2: Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Cleaning
Data Visualization
Technical requirementsVisualization using MatplotlibAccessories for chartsScatter plotLine plotPie plotBar plotHistogram plotBubble plotpandas plottingAdvanced visualization using the Seaborn packagelm plotsBar plotsDistribution plotsBox plotsKDE plotsViolin plotsCount plotsJoint plotsHeatmapsPair plotsInteractive visualization with BokehPlotting a simple graphGlyphsLayoutsNested layout using row and column layoutsMultiple plotsInteractionsHide click policyMute click policyAnnotationsHover toolWidgetsTab panelSliderSummary
Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data
Technical requirementsReading and writing CSV files with NumPyReading and writing CSV files with pandasReading and writing data from ExcelReading and writing data from JSONReading and writing data from HDF5Reading and writing data from HTML tablesReading and writing data from ParquetReading and writing data from a pickle pandas objectLightweight access with sqllite3Reading and writing data from MySQLInserting a whole DataFrame into the databaseReading and writing data from MongoDBReading and writing data from CassandraReading and writing data from RedisPonyORMSummary
Cleaning Messy Data
Technical requirementsExploring dataFiltering data to weed out the noiseColumn-wise filtration Row-wise filtration Handling missing valuesDropping missing valuesFilling in a missing valueHandling outliersFeature encoding techniquesOne-hot encodingLabel encodingOrdinal encoderFeature scalingMethods for feature scalingFeature transformationFeature splittingSummary
Signal Processing and Time Series
Technical requirementsThe statsmodels modulesMoving averagesWindow functionsDefining cointegrationSTL decompositionAutocorrelationAutoregressive modelsARMA modelsGenerating periodic signalsFourier analysisSpectral analysis filteringSummary
Section 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning
Supervised Learning - Regression Analysis
Technical requirementsLinear regressionMultiple linear regressionUnderstanding multicollinearityRemoving multicollinearityDummy variablesDeveloping a linear regression modelEvaluating regression model performanceR-squaredMSEMAERMSEFitting polynomial regressionRegression models for classificationLogistic regressionCharacteristics of the logistic regression modelTypes of logistic regression algorithmsAdvantages and disadvantages of logistic regressionImplementing logistic regression using scikit-learnSummary
Supervised Learning - Classification Techniques
Technical requirementsClassificationNaive Bayes classificationDecision tree classificationKNN classificationSVM classificationTerminologySplitting training and testing setsHoldoutK-fold cross-validationBootstrap methodEvaluating the classification model performanceConfusion matrixAccuracyPrecisionRecallF-measureROC curve and AUCSummary
Unsupervised Learning - PCA and Clustering
Technical requirementsUnsupervised learningReducing the dimensionality of dataPCAPerforming PCAClusteringFinding the number of clustersThe elbow methodThe silhouette methodPartitioning data using k-means clusteringHierarchical clusteringDBSCAN clusteringSpectral clusteringEvaluating clustering performanceInternal performance evaluationThe Davies-Bouldin indexThe silhouette coefficientExternal performance evaluationThe Rand scoreThe Jaccard scoreF-Measure or F1-scoreThe Fowlkes-Mallows scoreSummary
Section 4: NLP, Image Analytics, and Parallel Computing
Analyzing Textual Data
Technical requirementsInstalling NLTK and SpaCyText normalizationTokenizationRemoving stopwordsStemming and lemmatizationPOS taggingRecognizing entitiesDependency parsingCreating a word cloudBag of WordsTF-IDFSentiment analysis using text classificationClassification using BoWClassification using TF-IDFText similarityJaccard similarityCosine similaritySummary
Analyzing Image Data
Technical requirementsInstalling OpenCVUnderstanding image dataBinary imagesGrayscale imagesColor imagesColor modelsDrawing on imagesWriting on imagesResizing imagesFlipping imagesChanging the brightnessBlurring an imageFace detectionSummary
Parallel Computing Using Dask
Parallel computing using DaskDask data typesDask ArraysDask DataFramesDataFrame IndexingFilter dataGroupbyConverting a pandas DataFrame into a Dask DataFrameConverting a Dask DataFrame into a pandas DataFrameDask BagsCreating a Dask Bag using Python iterable itemsCreating a Dask Bag using a text fileStoring a Dask Bag in a text fileStoring a Dask Bag in a DataFrameDask DelayedPreprocessing data at scaleFeature scaling in DaskFeature encoding in DaskMachine learning at scaleParallel computing using scikit-learnReimplementing ML algorithms for DaskLogistic regressionClusteringSummary
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Section 3: Deep Dive into Machine Learning

The main objective of this section is to deep dive into machine learning algorithms and develop predictive models. This section focuses on regression, classification, PCA, and clustering methods. This section will mostly use pandas and scikit-learn.

This section includes the following chapters:

Chapter 9, Supervised Learning – Regression Analysis
Chapter 10, Supervised Learning – Classification Techniques
Chapter 11, Unsupervised Learning – PCA and Clustering

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