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Coffee Break NumPy

A Simple Road to Data Science Mastery That Fits Into Your Busy Life

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Do ​​​​you want to learn ​​data science 44% faster?

​The new textbook Coffee Break NumPy leverages the scientifically proven way of puzzle-based learning to code!

"Students who were quizzed after studying a short text could recall significantly more information than students who were asked to reread it" (Karpicke, 2007b)

Fear of missing out on data science and machine learning?​ The trend of automation is not coming to a halt soon. Machines take over more and more traditional jobs from human workers.

But also highly-skilled knowledge workers such as doctors, traditional computer scientists, teachers, and financial analysts are under the danger to be replaced by machines.

This is the era of machine learning and data science.

And missing out on data science can be the #1 most costly mistake of your career.

​But you're in luck: this ​eBook package ​gives you a fun way to start learning data science with Python. ​It gives you a thorough introduction in one of Python's most important libraries for data science and machine learning: NumPy

​​I ​have written the book on the basis of the proven method of solving practical code puzzles and practice testing -- to make learning more fun, faster, and smarter.

And here's the best thing: practice testing is scientifically proven to generate ​up to 44% better learning retention and ​efficiency.​

So what's in it for you?

  • ​Understand ​NumPy code ​quickly.
  • Learn all the basic ​NumPy concepts and data structures.
  • Finally understand ​the most important NumPy functions and how to use them for practical problems.

As an additional bonus, you ​can track your individual ​NumPy coding skill level throughout the book. After reading the book, you'll know exactly how good you are in comparison to your ​friends and colleagues.

To get the most out of this book, you should ​know the basics of Python — e.g., you have already ​read ​my previous book "Coffee Break Python".

The book is packed with 211 pages of in-depth NumPy content:

  • ​4​6 educative code puzzles to test your skills and to make learning easy and fun!
  • ​10 tips for efficient learning​ to help you stop wasting time!
  • ​​1 NumPy cheat sheets to learn 80% of the language features in 20% of the space!
  • ​1 accurate way to measure your coding skills because clarity is the first step to success!
  • ​​[BONUS] 1 detailed NumPy ​tutorial for absolute beginners ​to get you started!

Have your "Coffee Break NumPy" now! ;)

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Christian Mayer
Christian Mayer

Chris is the founder of the programming education company FINXTER, author of the Coffee Break Python series of self-published books, the popular programming book Python One-Liners (NoStarch 2020), a doctorate computer scientist, and owner of one of the top 10 Python blogs worldwide.

His research interests include graph theory and distributed systems.

You can join the FINXTER email academy and consume a large body of free email courses about various topics in computer science and programming.

Lukas Rieger
Lukas Rieger

I love coding and espacially in Python! Python is easy to learn and at the same time it is very powerful. Through the books I would like to help you to discover this! Therefore we designed our puzzle based teaching approach which helps you to learn quickly what you really need and with fun.

I have been working as a Software developer for several years. Currently I'm in the field of operations/SRE of cloud applications.

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Reader Testimonials

Chris C.
Chris C.

Real-world NumPy

"Another great little Python book from Christian and his colleagues. As a practitioner in this field, I really appreciate the focus on real-world problems. I ​can see my coffee breaks will be full for some time to come!"

Pepe
Pepe

Fun and Engaging

The puzzle-solving methodology is very engaging and not very time demanding. Although far from being a computer scientist, I was able to strengthen my data science skills. I found this as engaging and exciting as the first one "Coffee Break Python" and I recommend it to every upcoming data scientist.

Table of Contents

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Why Learn NumPy? 5

3 A Case for Puzzle-based Learning 8

3.1 Overcome the Knowledge Gap . . . . . . . 10

3.2 Embrace the Eureka Moment . . . . . . . 11

3.3 Divide and Conquer . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3.4 Improve From Immediate Feedback . . . . 14

3.5 Measure Your Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.6 Individualized Learning . . . . . . . . . . . 18

3.7 Small is Beautiful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

3.8 Active Beats Passive Learning . . . . . . . 21

3.9 Make Code a First-class Citizen . . . . . . 23

3.10 What You See is All There is . . . . . . . 25

4 The Elo Rating for Python—and NumPy 27

4.1 How to Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . . 28

4.2 The Ideal Code Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . 30

4.3 How to Exploit the Power of Habits? . . . 31

4.4 How to Test and Train Your Skills? . . . . 32

4.5 What Can This Book Do For You? . . . . 36

5 A Quick Data Science Tutorial: The NumPy Library 40

5.1 What is NumPy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

5.2 What can NumPy do for me? . . . . . . . 42

5.3 What are the Limitations of NumPy? . . . 44

5.4 What are the Linear Algebra Basics You

Need to Know? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

5.5 What are Arrays and Matrices in NumPy? 54

5.6 What are Axes and the Shape of an Array? 57

5.7 How to Create and Initialize NumPy Arrays? 60

5.8 How does indexing and slicing work in Python? 67

5.9 How Does Indexing and Slicing Work in

NumPy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

5.10 NumPy Cheat Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

6 NumPy Basics 81

6.1 NumPy 1D Array Creation . . . . . . . . . 82

6.2 NumPy 2D Array Creation . . . . . . . . . 84

6.3 Extracting Array Dimensionality . . . . . 86

6.4 Accessing Array Shape . . . . . . . . . . . 89

6.5 Averaging 1D Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

6.6 Working with Not a Number the Wrong

Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

6.7 Working with Not a Number the Right Way 97

6.8 Creating Numerical Sequences . . . . . . . 99

6.9 Creating Numerical Intervals . . . . . . . . 101

6.10 Initializing Multi-Dimensional Arrays . . . 103

6.11 Revisiting Linear Algebra . . . . . . . . . 106

6.12 Understanding the Hadamard Product . . 108

6.13 Broadcasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

6.14 Practicing Simple Indexing . . . . . . . . . 114

6.15 The Boolean Indexing Trick . . . . . . . . 117

6.16 Slicing Matrices Like Paper . . . . . . . . 119

6.17 Simple Array Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

6.18 Mastering Slice Assignments . . . . . . . . 126

6.19 Sorting an Array (Part 1) . . . . . . . . . 128

6.20 Sorting an Array (Part 2) . . . . . . . . . 130

6.21 Computing Array Element Differences . . 133

6.22 Computing Array of Cumulative Sums . . 135

7 Linear Algebra and Statistics 137

7.1 Calculating 1D Dot Product . . . . . . . . 137

7.2 Multiplying 2D Matrices . . . . . . . . . . 141

7.3 Enhancing Vector Operations . . . . . . . 144

7.4 Linear Algebra Made Simple . . . . . . . . 147

7.5 Revisiting Average . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

7.6 Reshaping 1D Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

7.7 Averaging 2D Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

7.8 Weighted Averaging Along Axes . . . . . . 158

7.9 Calculating 1D Variance . . . . . . . . . . 161

7.10 Axis Variance of a 2D Array . . . . . . . . 163

7.11 1D Axis Standard Deviation . . . . . . . . 166

8 Practical Data Science 169

8.1 Statistical Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

8.2 Data Cleaning or Living in an Unperfect

World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

8.3 Understandig the Basics of Filters . . . . . 174

8.4 Creating Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

8.5 Mastering the Power of Filters . . . . . . . 178

8.6 Applying Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

8.7 Finding Array Elements . . . . . . . . . . 182

8.8 Leveraging Data Science to Boost Revenues

I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

8.9 Leveraging Data Science to Boost Revenues

II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

8.10 Finding and Locating Maximum Elements 192

8.11 Computing Number of Hospital Patients . 196

8.12 Finding Chunks of Allocated Memory . . . 199

8.13 Giving Meaning to the Mean . . . . . . . . 203

9 Final Remarks 207

Your skill level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Where to go from here? . . . . . . . . . . 209

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