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NumPy Beginner's Guide

NumPy Beginner's Guide

By : Ivan Idris
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NumPy Beginner's Guide

NumPy Beginner's Guide

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By: Ivan Idris
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Overview of this book

NumPy is an extension to, and the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. In today's world of science and technology, it is all about speed and flexibility. When it comes to scientific computing, NumPy is on the top of the list. NumPy Beginner's Guide will teach you about NumPy, a leading scientific computing library. NumPy replaces a lot of the functionality of Matlab and Mathematica, but in contrast to those products, is free and open source. Write readable, efficient, and fast code, which is as close to the language of mathematics as is currently possible with the cutting edge open source NumPy software library. Learn all the ins and outs of NumPy that requires you to know basic Python only. Save thousands of dollars on expensive software, while keeping all the flexibility and power of your favourite programming language.You will learn about installing and using NumPy and related concepts. At the end of the book we will explore some related scientific computing projects. This book will give you a solid foundation in NumPy arrays and universal functions. Through examples, you will also learn about plotting with Matplotlib and the related SciPy project. NumPy Beginner's Guide will help you be productive with NumPy and have you writing clean and fast code in no time at all.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Numpy Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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NumPy Quick Start
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NumPy Quick Start
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Python
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Time for action – installing Python on different operating systems
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Windows
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Time for action – installing NumPy, Matplotlib, SciPy, and IPython on Windows
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Linux
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Time for action – installing NumPy, Matplotlib, SciPy, and IPython on Linux
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Mac OS X
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Time for action – installing NumPy, Matplotlib, and SciPy on Mac OS X
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Time for action – installing NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, and IPython with MacPorts or Fink
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Building from source
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Arrays
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Time for action – adding vectors
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IPython—an interactive shell
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Online resources and help
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Summary
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Beginning with NumPy Fundamentals
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Beginning with NumPy Fundamentals
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NumPy array object
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Time for action – creating a multidimensional array
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Time for action – creating a record data type
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One-dimensional slicing and indexing
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Time for action – slicing and indexing multidimensional arrays
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Time for action – manipulating array shapes
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Time for action – stacking arrays
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Time for action – splitting arrays
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Time for action – converting arrays
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Summary
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Get in Terms with Commonly Used Functions
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Get in Terms with Commonly Used Functions
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File I/O
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Time for action – reading and writing files
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CSV files
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Time for action – loading from CSV files
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Volume-weighted average price
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Time for action – calculating volume-weighted average price
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Value range
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Time for action – finding highest and lowest values
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Statistics
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Time for action – doing simple statistics
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Stock returns
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Time for action – analyzing stock returns
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Dates
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Time for action – dealing with dates
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Weekly summary
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Time for action – summarizing data
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Average true range
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Time for action – calculating the average true range
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Simple moving average
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Time for action – computing the simple moving average
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Exponential moving average
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Time for action – calculating the exponential moving average
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Bollinger bands
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Time for action – enveloping with Bollinger bands
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Linear model
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Time for action – predicting price with a linear model
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Trend lines
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Time for action – drawing trend lines
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Methods of ndarray
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Time for action – clipping and compressing arrays
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Factorial
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Time for action – calculating the factorial
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Summary
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Convenience Functions for Your Convenience
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Convenience Functions for Your Convenience
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Correlation
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Time for action – trading correlated pairs
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Polynomials
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Time for action – fitting to polynomials
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On-balance volume
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Time for action – balancing volume
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Simulation
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Time for action – avoiding loops with vectorize
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Smoothing
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Time for action – smoothing with the hanning function
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Working with Matrices and ufuncs
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Working with Matrices and ufuncs
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Matrices
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Time for action – creating matrices
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Creating a matrix from other matrices
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Time for action – creating a matrix from other matrices
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Universal functions
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Time for action – creating universal function
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Universal function methods
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Time for action – applying the ufunc methods on add
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Arithmetic functions
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Time for action – dividing arrays
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Time for action – computing the modulo
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Fibonacci numbers
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Time for action – computing Fibonacci numbers
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Lissajous curves
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Time for action – drawing Lissajous curves
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Square waves
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Time for action – drawing a square wave
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Sawtooth and triangle waves
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Time for action – drawing sawtooth and triangle waves
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Bitwise and comparison functions
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Time for action – twiddling bits
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Summary
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Move Further with NumPy Modules
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Move Further with NumPy Modules
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Linear algebra
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Time for action – inverting matrices
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Solving linear systems
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Time for action – solving a linear system
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Finding eigenvalues and eigenvectors
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Time for action – determining eigenvalues and eigenvectors
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Singular value decomposition
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Time for action – decomposing a matrix
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Pseudoinverse
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Time for action – computing the pseudo inverse of a matrix
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Determinants
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Time for action – calculating the determinant of a matrix
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Fast Fourier transform
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Time for action – calculating the Fourier transform
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Shifting
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Time for action – shifting frequencies
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Random numbers
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Time for action – gambling with the binomial
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Hypergeometric distribution
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Time for action – simulating a game show
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Continuous distributions
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Time for action – drawing a normal distribution
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Lognormal distribution
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Time for action – drawing the lognormal distribution
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Summary
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Peeking into Special Routines
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Peeking into Special Routines
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Sorting
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Time for action – sorting lexically
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Complex numbers
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Time for action – sorting complex numbers
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Searching
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Time for action – using searchsorted
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Array elements' extraction
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Time for action – extracting elements from an array
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Financial functions
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Time for action – determining future value
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Present value
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Time for action – getting the present value
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Net present value
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Time for action – calculating the net present value
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Internal rate of return
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Time for action – determining the internal rate of return
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Periodic payments
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Time for action – calculating the periodic payments
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Number of payments
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Time for action – determining the number of periodic payments
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Interest rate
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Time for action – figuring out the rate
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Window functions
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Time for action – plotting the Bartlett window
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Blackman window
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Time for action – smoothing stock prices with the Blackman window
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Hamming window
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Time for action – plotting the Hamming window
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Kaiser window
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Time for action – plotting the Kaiser window
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Special mathematical functions
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Time for action – plotting the modified Bessel function
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sinc
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Time for action – plotting the sinc function
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Summary
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Assure Quality with Testing
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Assure Quality with Testing
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Assert functions
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Time for action – asserting almost equal
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Approximately equal arrays
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Time for action – asserting approximately equal
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Almost equal arrays
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Time for action – asserting arrays almost equal
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Equal arrays
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Time for action – comparing arrays
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Ordering arrays
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Time for action – checking the array order
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Objects comparison
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Time for action – comparing objects
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String comparison
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Time for action – comparing strings
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Floating point comparisons
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Time for action – comparing with assert_array_almost_equal_nulp
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Comparison of floats with more ULPs
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Time for action – comparing using maxulp of 2
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Unit tests
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Time for action – writing a unit test
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Nose tests decorators
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Time for action – decorating tests
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Docstrings
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Time for action – executing doctests
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Plotting with Matplotlib
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Plotting with Matplotlib
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Simple plots
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Time for action – plotting a polynomial function
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Plot format string
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Time for action – plotting a polynomial and its derivative
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Subplots
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Time for action – plotting a polynomial and its derivatives
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Finance
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Time for action – plotting a year’s worth of stock quotes
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Histograms
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Time for action – charting stock price distributions
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Logarithmic plots
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Time for action – plotting stock volume
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Scatter plots
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Time for action – plotting price and volume returns with scatter plot
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Fill between
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Time for action – shading plot regions based on a condition
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Legend and annotations
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Time for action – using legend and annotations
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Three dimensional plots
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Time for action – plotting in three dimensions
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Contour plots
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Time for action – drawing a filled contour plot
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Animation
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Time for action – animating plots
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Summary
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When NumPy is Not Enough – SciPy and Beyond
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When NumPy is Not Enough – SciPy and Beyond
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MATLAB and Octave
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Time for action – saving and loading a .mat file
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Statistics
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Time for action – analyzing random values
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Samples’ comparison and SciKits
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Time for action – comparing stock log returns
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Signal processing
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Time for action – detecting a trend in QQQ
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Fourier analysis
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Time for action – filtering a detrended signal
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Mathematical optimization
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Time for action – fitting to a sine
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Numerical integration
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Time for action – calculating the Gaussian integral
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Interpolation
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Time for action – interpolating in one dimension
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Image processing
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Time for action – manipulating Lena
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Audio processing
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Time for action – replaying audio clips
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Playing with Pygame
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Playing with Pygame
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Pygame
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Time for action – installing Pygame
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Hello World
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Time for action – creating a simple game
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Animation
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Time for action – animating objects with NumPy and Pygame
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Matplotlib
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Time for action – using Matplotlib in Pygame
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Surface pixels
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Time for action – accessing surface pixel data with NumPy
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Artificial intelligence
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Time for action – clustering points
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OpenGL and Pygame
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Time for action – drawing the Sierpinski gasket
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Simulation game with PyGame
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Time for action – simulating life
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Summary
Pop Quiz Answers
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Pop Quiz Answers
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Chapter 1, NumPy Quick Start
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Chapter 2, Beginning with NumPy Fundamentals
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Chapter 3, Get into Terms with Commonly Used Functions
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Chapter 4, Convenience functions for your convenience
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Chapter 5, Working with Matrices and ufuncs
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Chapter 6, Move further with NumPy modules
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Chapter 7, Peeking into special routines
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Chapter 8, Assure Quality with Testing
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Chapter 9, Plotting with Matplotlib
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Chapter 10, When NumPy is not enough Scipy and beyond
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Index

Online resources and help

When we are in IPython's pylab mode , we can open manual pages for NumPy functions with the help command. It is not necessary to know the name of a function. We can type a few characters and then let tab completion do its work. Let's, for instance, browse the available information for the arange function.

In [2]: help ar<Tab>

In [2]: help arange

Another option is to put a question mark behind the function name:

In [3]: arange?

The main documentation website for NumPy and SciPy is at http://docs.scipy.org/doc/. Through this webpage, we can browse the NumPy reference at http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/ and the user guide as well as several tutorials.

NumPy has a wiki with lots of documentation at http://docs.scipy.org/numpy/Front%20Page/.

The NumPy and SciPy forum can be found at http://ask.scipy.org/en.

The popular Stack Overflow software development forum has hundreds of questions tagged numpy. To view them, go to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/numpy.

If you are really stuck with a problem or you want to be kept informed of NumPy development, you can subscribe to the NumPy discussion mailing list. The e-mail address is . The number of e-mails per day is not too high and there is almost no spam to speak of. Most importantly, developers actively involved with NumPy also answer questions asked on the discussion group. The complete list can be found at http://www.scipy.org/Mailing_Lists.

For IRC users, there is an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. The channel is called #scipy, but you can also ask NumPy questions since SciPy users also have knowledge of NumPy, as SciPy is based on NumPy. There are at least 50 members on the SciPy channel at all times.

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