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Hands-On Data Preprocessing in Python

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Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072137
Pages 602 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Technical Needs
2. Chapter 1: Review of the Core Modules of NumPy and Pandas 3. Chapter 2: Review of Another Core Module – Matplotlib 4. Chapter 3: Data – What Is It Really? 5. Chapter 4: Databases 6. Part 2: Analytic Goals
7. Chapter 5: Data Visualization 8. Chapter 6: Prediction 9. Chapter 7: Classification 10. Chapter 8: Clustering Analysis 11. Part 3: The Preprocessing
12. Chapter 9: Data Cleaning Level I – Cleaning Up the Table 13. Chapter 10: Data Cleaning Level II – Unpacking, Restructuring, and Reformulating the Table 14. Chapter 11: Data Cleaning Level III – Missing Values, Outliers, and Errors 15. Chapter 12: Data Fusion and Data Integration 16. Chapter 13: Data Reduction 17. Chapter 14: Data Transformation and Massaging 18. Part 4: Case Studies
19. Chapter 15: Case Study 1 – Mental Health in Tech 20. Chapter 16: Case Study 2 – Predicting COVID-19 Hospitalizations 21. Chapter 17: Case Study 3: United States Counties Clustering Analysis 22. Chapter 18: Summary, Practice Case Studies, and Conclusions 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Technical requirements

The easiest way to get started with Python programming is by installing Anaconda Navigator. It is open source software that brings together many useful open source tools for developers. You can download Anaconda Navigator by following this link: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual.

We will be using Jupyter Notebook throughout this book. Jupyter Notebook is one of the open source tools that Anaconda Navigator provides. Anaconda Navigator also installs a Python version on your computer. So, following Anaconda Navigator's easy installation, all you need to do is open Anaconda Navigator and then select Jupyter Notebook.

You will be able to find all of the code and the dataset that is used in this book in a GitHub repository exclusively created for this book. To find the repository, click on the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Data-Preprocessing-in-Python. Each chapter in this book will have a folder that contains all of the code and datasets that were used in the chapter.

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Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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