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Mastering pandas. - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781789343236
Pages 674 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ashish Kumar Ashish Kumar
Profile icon Ashish Kumar

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Overview of Data Analysis and pandas
Introduction to pandas and Data Analysis Installation of pandas and Supporting Software Section 2: Data Structures and I/O in pandas
Using NumPy and Data Structures with pandas I/Os of Different Data Formats with pandas Section 3: Mastering Different Data Operations in pandas
Indexing and Selecting in pandas Grouping, Merging, and Reshaping Data in pandas Special Data Operations in pandas Time Series and Plotting Using Matplotlib Section 4: Going a Step Beyond with pandas
Making Powerful Reports In Jupyter Using pandas A Tour of Statistics with pandas and NumPy A Brief Tour of Bayesian Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Estimates Data Case Studies Using pandas The pandas Library Architecture pandas Compared with Other Tools A Brief Tour of Machine Learning Other Books You May Enjoy

Cross tooling – combining pandas awesomeness with R, Julia, H20.ai, and Azure ML Studio

Pandas can be regarded as a "wonder tool" when it comes to applications like data manipulation, data cleaning, or handling time series data. It is extremely fast and efficient, and it is powerful enough to handle small to intermediate datasets. The best part is that the use of pandas is not restricted just to Python. There are methods enabling the supremacy of pandas to be utilized in other frameworks, like R, Julia, Azure ML Studio and H20.ai. These methods of using the benefits of a superior framework from another tool is called cross-tooling and is frequently applied. One of the main reasons for this to exist is that it is almost impossible for one tool to have all the functionalities. Suppose one task has two sub-tasks: sub-task 1 can be done well in R while the sub-task...

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