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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

Understanding dynamic dashboards

An alternative approach to building a dashboard of your own is to make an actual web application, with a live server running Python on a backend; this will, upon request, show you a dashboard. This approach is, essentially, the exact opposite of a static dashboard in terms of pros and cons: it requires maintenance, needs to be scaled if the traffic is heavy, and could be slower. It also allows you to configure access, customize dashboards for any user or group of users, and compute the results live, even for a comparatively large dataset, without the need to share this dataset as a whole with the audience.

Of course, we could build an entire web application, controlling each and every feature (we won't do that), or use one of the specialized dashboard packages, such as uperset (essentially, a full-blown platform that requires database access...

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