January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
812 pages
21h 41m
English
Time series analysis often begins with data preparation, a crucial and time-consuming stage. To effectively analyze time series, you first need to access the data, often stored in various file formats or database systems.
Time series data is complex and can appear in various shapes and formats. For instance, it may come as regular timestamped records, such as hourly temperature readings, or irregular events, such as transaction logs with varying time intervals. Data might also include multiple time series combined into a single dataset, such as sales and inventory levels for several stores.
In this chapter, we will use pandas, a popular Python library with a rich set of I/O tools, data wrangling, and date/time ...
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