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Published inJun 2014
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Ivan Idris
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Ivan Idris has an MSc in experimental physics. His graduation thesis had a strong emphasis on applied computer science. After graduating, he worked for several companies as a Java developer, data warehouse developer, and QA analyst. His main professional interests are business intelligence, big data, and cloud computing. Ivan Idris enjoys writing clean, testable code and interesting technical articles. Ivan Idris is the author of NumPy 1.5. Beginner's Guide and NumPy Cookbook by Packt Publishing.
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We learned a lot in this chapter about the NumPy fundamentals: data types and arrays. Arrays have several attributes describing them. We learned that one of these attributes is the data type which, in NumPy, is represented by a full-fledged object.

NumPy arrays can be sliced and indexed in an efficient manner, just as in the case of Python lists. NumPy arrays have the added ability of working with multiple dimensions.

The shape of an array can be manipulated in many ways, such as stacking, resizing, reshaping, and splitting. A great number of convenience functions for shape manipulation were demonstrated in this chapter.

Having learned about the basics, it's time to move on to data analysis with commonly used functions in Chapter 3, Basic Data Analysis with NumPy. This includes the usage of basic statistical and mathematical functions.

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Ivan Idris

Ivan Idris has an MSc in experimental physics. His graduation thesis had a strong emphasis on applied computer science. After graduating, he worked for several companies as a Java developer, data warehouse developer, and QA analyst. His main professional interests are business intelligence, big data, and cloud computing. Ivan Idris enjoys writing clean, testable code and interesting technical articles. Ivan Idris is the author of NumPy 1.5. Beginner's Guide and NumPy Cookbook by Packt Publishing.
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