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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

By : Stefanie Molin
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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

4.7 (11)
By: Stefanie Molin

Overview of this book

Data analysis has become a necessary skill in a variety of domains where knowing how to work with data and extract insights can generate significant value. Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas will show you how to analyze your data, get started with machine learning, and work effectively with Python libraries often used for data science, such as pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, seaborn, and scikit-learn. Using real-world datasets, you will learn how to use the powerful pandas library to perform data wrangling to reshape, clean, and aggregate your data. Then, you will be able to conduct exploratory data analysis by calculating summary statistics and visualizing the data to find patterns. In the concluding chapters, you will explore some applications of anomaly detection, regression, clustering, and classification using scikit-learn to make predictions based on past data. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to use pandas to ensure the veracity of your data, visualize it for effective decision-making, and reliably reproduce analyses across multiple datasets.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Pandas
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Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis
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Section 3: Applications - Real-World Analyses Using Pandas
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Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
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Section 5: Additional Resources
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Solutions

Unsupervised methods

While we wait for our labeled data, let's work on some unsupervised methods for anomaly detection. If the hackers are conspicuous and distinct from our valid users, unsupervised methods may prove pretty effective. This is a good place to start before we have labeled data, or if the labeled data is difficult to gather or not guaranteed to be representative of the full spectrum we are looking to flag. Note that, in most cases, we won't have labeled data, so it is crucial that we are familiar with some unsupervised methods.

In our initial EDA, we identified the number of usernames with a failed login attempt in a given minute as a feature for anomaly detection. We will now pursue some unsupervised anomaly detection, using this feature as the jumping-off point. Scikit-learn provides a few algorithms for unsupervised anomaly detection. In the
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