Python Data Analytics: With Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib

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F. NelliPython Data Analyticshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9532-8_1

1. An Introduction to Data Analysis

Fabio Nelli¹  

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Rome, Italy

 

In this chapter, you’ll take your first steps in the world of data analysis, learning in detail the concepts and processes that make up this discipline. The concepts discussed in this chapter are helpful background for the following chapters, where these concepts and procedures are applied in the form of Python code, through the use of several libraries that are discussed in later chapters.

Data Analysis

In a world increasingly centralized around information technology, huge amounts of data are produced and stored each ...