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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

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By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Python is one of the leading open source platforms for data science and numerical computing. IPython and the associated Jupyter Notebook offer efficient interfaces to Python for data analysis and interactive visualization, and they constitute an ideal gateway to the platform. IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition contains many ready-to-use, focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis, from the latest IPython/Jupyter features to the most advanced tricks, to help you write better and faster code. You will apply these state-of-the-art methods to various real-world examples, illustrating topics in applied mathematics, scientific modeling, and machine learning. The first part of the book covers programming techniques: code quality and reproducibility, code optimization, high-performance computing through just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction


Although Python is not generally considered one of the fastest language (which is somewhat unfair), it is possible to achieve excellent performance with the appropriate methods. This is the objective of this chapter and the next. This chapter describes how to evaluate (profile) what makes a program slow, and how this information can be used to optimize the code and make it more efficient. The next chapter will deal with more advanced high-performance computing methods that should only be tackled when the methods described here are not sufficient.

The recipes of this chapter are organized into three parts:

  • Time and memory profiling: Evaluating the performance of your code

  • NumPy optimization: Using NumPy more efficiently, particularly with large arrays

  • Memory mapping with arrays: Implementing memory mapping techniques for out-of-core computations on huge arrays

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