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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789535365
Pages 482 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Philipp Kats Philipp Kats
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David Katz David Katz
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Getting Started with Python
Preparing the Workspace First Steps in Coding - Variables and Data Types Functions Data Structures Loops and Other Compound Statements First Script – Geocoding with Web APIs Scraping Data from the Web with Beautiful Soup 4 Simulation with Classes and Inheritance Shell, Git, Conda, and More – at Your Command Section 2: Hands-On with Data
Python for Data Applications Data Cleaning and Manipulation Data Exploration and Visualization Training a Machine Learning Model Improving Your Model – Pipelines and Experiments Section 3: Moving to Production
Packaging and Testing with Poetry and PyTest Data Pipelines with Luigi Let's Build a Dashboard Serving Models with a RESTful API Serverless API Using Chalice Best Practices and Python Performance Assessments Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing the code so far

How would we know whether the code is good, anyway? The only good way is to rigorously test your code. While it may sound like a lot of somewhat unnecessary work, it is a practice that will repay you many times over in the future—once you're sure your code behaves as intended, it is much easier to add new features and be sure that they didn't break any of the existing ones. Furthermore, you can upgrade dependencies or compare different implementations, all being sure that your code behaves as intended.

As for many other things, Python has a standard library for testing—unittest. In contrast to most of the standard libraries, however, unittest is fairly unpopular. Instead, another library, pytest, is considered the de facto industry standard for Python testing, as it provides a clean and reusable pattern of code and has support...

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