3. Introduction to NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib

Overview

In this chapter, you will learn about the fundamentals of the NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib libraries. You will learn to create one-dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays and manipulate pandas DataFrames and series objects. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to visualize and plot numerical data using the Matplotlib library, as well as to apply matplotlib, NumPy, and pandas to calculate descriptive statistics from a DataFrame or matrix.

Introduction

In the preceding chapters, we covered some advanced data structures, such as stack, queue, iterator, and file operations in Python. In this chapter, we will cover three essential libraries, namely NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib ...

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