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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

By : Kats, Katz
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Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

2.8 (4)
By: Kats, Katz

Overview of this book

Python is the most widely used programming language for building data science applications. Complete with step-by-step instructions, this book contains easy-to-follow tutorials to help you learn Python and develop real-world data science projects. The “secret sauce” of the book is its curated list of topics and solutions, put together using a range of real-world projects, covering initial data collection, data analysis, and production. This Python book starts by taking you through the basics of programming, right from variables and data types to classes and functions. You’ll learn how to write idiomatic code and test and debug it, and discover how you can create packages or use the range of built-in ones. You’ll also be introduced to the extensive ecosystem of Python data science packages, including NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, Altair, and Datashader. Furthermore, you’ll be able to perform data analysis, train models, and interpret and communicate the results. Finally, you’ll get to grips with structuring and scheduling scripts using Luigi and sharing your machine learning models with the world as a microservice. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned not only how to implement Python in data science projects, but also how to maintain and design them to meet high programming standards.
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Section 1: Getting Started with Python
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Section 2: Hands-On with Data
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Section 3: Moving to Production

Reading and writing data

Now that the function works, we can put it to work using any address, or an array of addresses using loops. For that, addresses could be copied and pasted into Jupyter, but that is not a sustainable solution. Most of the time, our data is stored somewhere in a database or a file. Let's learn how to read addresses from a file and store the results to another file.

CSV is a popular text-based format for tabular data, where each line represents a row and cells are separated by separator symbols—usually commas, but it could be a semicolon or a pipe. Cells containing separator or newline symbols are usually "escaped" using quotes. This format is not the most efficient, but it is widespread and easy to read using any text editor.

Python has a built-in library for dealing with .csv files—it is called csv. It has two ways to parse...

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