Ashish Kumar

Perform advanced data manipulation tasks using pandas and become an expert data analyst.

Key Features

 • Manipulate and analyze your data expertly using the power of pandas

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 • Work with missing data and time series data and become a true pandas expert

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 • Includes expert tips and techniques on making your data analysis tasks easier

Book Description

pandas is a popular Python library used by data scientists and analysts worldwide to manipulate and analyze their data. This book presents useful data manipulation techniques in pandas to perform complex data analysis in various domains.

An update to our highly successful previous edition with new features, examples, updated code, and more, this book is an in-depth guide to get the most out of pandas for data analysis. Designed for both intermediate users as well as seasoned practitioners, you will learn advanced data manipulation techniques, such as multi-indexing, modifying data structures, and sampling your data, which allow for powerful analysis and help you gain accurate insights from it. With the help of this book, you will apply pandas to different domains, such as Bayesian statistics, predictive analytics, and time series analysis using an example-based approach. And not just that; you will also learn how to prepare powerful, interactive business reports in pandas using the Jupyter notebook.

By the end of this book, you will learn how to perform efficient data analysis using pandas on complex data, and become an expert data analyst or data scientist in the process.

What you will learn

 • Speed up your data analysis by importing data into pandas

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 • Keep relevant data points by selecting subsets of your data

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 • Create a high-quality dataset by cleaning data and fixing missing values

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 • Compute actionable analytics with grouping and aggregation in pandas

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 • Master time series data analysis in pandas

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 • Make powerful reports in pandas using Jupyter notebooks

Who this book is for

This book is for data scientists, analysts and Python developers who wish to explore advanced data analysis and scientific computing techniques using pandas. Some fundamental understanding of Python programming and familiarity with the basic data analysis concepts is all you need to get started with this book.

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