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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

Moving averages


Moving averages are frequently used to analyze time series. A moving average specifies a window of data that is previously seen, which is averaged each time the window slides forward by one period:

The different types of moving averages differ essentially in the weights used for averaging. The exponential moving average, for instance, has exponentially decreasing weights with time:

This means that older values have less influence than newer values, which is sometimes desirable.

The following code from the ch-07.ipynb file in this book's code bundle plots the simple moving average for the 11 and 22 year sunspots cycles:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
import statsmodels.api as sm 
from pandas.stats.moments import rolling_mean 
 
data_loader = sm.datasets.sunspots.load_pandas() 
df = data_loader.data 
year_range = df["YEAR"].values 
plt.plot(year_range, df["SUNACTIVITY"].values, label="Original") 
plt.plot(year_range, df.rolling(window...

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