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Python Data Analysis, Second Edition

Python Data Analysis, Second Edition

By : Idris
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Python Data Analysis, Second Edition

Python Data Analysis, Second Edition

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By: Idris

Overview of this book

Data analysis techniques generate useful insights from small and large volumes of data. Python, with its strong set of libraries, has become a popular platform to conduct various data analysis and predictive modeling tasks. With this book, you will learn how to process and manipulate data with Python for complex analysis and modeling. We learn data manipulations such as aggregating, concatenating, appending, cleaning, and handling missing values, with NumPy and Pandas. The book covers how to store and retrieve data from various data sources such as SQL and NoSQL, CSV fies, and HDF5. We learn how to visualize data using visualization libraries, along with advanced topics such as signal processing, time series, textual data analysis, machine learning, and social media analysis. The book covers a plethora of Python modules, such as matplotlib, statsmodels, scikit-learn, and NLTK. It also covers using Python with external environments such as R, Fortran, C/C++, and Boost libraries.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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A. Key Concepts
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C. Online Resources

Chapter 5. Retrieving, Processing, and Storing Data

Data can be found everywhere, in all shapes and forms. We can get it from the web, by e-mail and FTP, or we can create it ourselves in a lab experiment or marketing poll. An exhaustive overview of how to acquire data in various formats will require many more pages than we have available. Sometimes, we need to store data before we can analyze it or after we are done with our analysis. We will discuss storing data in this chapter. Chapter 8, Working with Databases, gives information about various databases (relational and NoSQL) and related APIs. The following is a list of the topics that we are going to cover in this chapter:

  • Writing CSV files with NumPy and Pandas
  • The binary .npy and pickle formats
  • Storing data with PyTables
  • Reading and writing Pandas DataFrames to HDF5 stores
  • Reading and writing to Excel with Pandas
  • Using REST web services and JSON
  • Reading and writing JSON with Pandas
  • Parsing RSS and Atom feeds
  • Parsing HTML with Beautiful...

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