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Data Literacy With Python

You're reading from Data Literacy With Python A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Analyzing Data with Python

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Mercury_Learning

ISBN-13 9781836640097

Length 271 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Matplotlib

Concepts

Data Analysis

Authors (2):

Mercury Learning and Information

Oswald Campesato

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Working With Data

2. Chapter 2: Outlier and Anomaly Detection FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Cleaning Datasets

4. Chapter 4: Introduction to Statistics

5. Chapter 5: Matplotlib and Seaborn

6. Index

Appendix A: Introduction to Python

1. Appendix B: Introduction to Pandas

WHAT IS DATA VISUALIZATION?

Data visualization refers to presenting data in a graphical manner, such as bar charts, line graphs, heat maps, and many other specialized representations. As you probably know, Big Data comprises massive amounts of data, which leverages data visualization tools to assist in making better decisions.

A key role for good data visualization is to tell a meaningful story, which in turn focuses on useful information that resides in datasets that can contain many data points (i.e., billions of rows of data). Another aspect of data visualization is its effectiveness: how well does it convey the trends that might exist in the dataset?

There are many open-source data visualization tools available, some of which are listed here (many others are available):

• Matplotlib

• Seaborn

• Bokeh

• YellowBrick

• Tableau

• D3.js (JavaScript and SVG)

Incidentally, in case you have not already done so, it would be helpful to install the...

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Mercury Learning and Information

Mercury Learning and Information

MERCURY LEARNING and INFORMATION publishes content in the areas of science and medicine, technology and computing, engineering, and mathematics designed for the professional/reference, trade, library, higher education, career school, and online training markets.

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Oswald Campesato

Oswald Campesato

Oswald Campesato specializes in Deep Learning, Python, Data Science, and generative AI. He is the author/co-author of over forty books including Google Gemini for Python, Data Cleaning, and GPT-4 for Developers (all Mercury Learning).

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