Data Analysis with Python (Book + Datasets)

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Data Analysis with Python

Learning by Coding

About the Book

This book is the bomb.

About the Author

AJ Henley
Alton J Henley Jr

AJ Henley is a technology educator with over 20 years experience as a developer, designer and systems engineer.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
    • How to use this book
    • Installing iPython Notebook
      • What is iPython notebook?
      • What is Anaconda?
      • Getting Started
      • Getting the datasets for the workbook’s exercises
  • 2. Getting Data into and out of Python
    • Loading Data from CSV Files
    • Saving Data to CSV
    • Loading Data from Excel Files
    • Saving Data to Excel Files
    • Combining Data from Multiple Excel Files:
    • Loading Data from SQL
    • Saving Data to SQL
    • Random Numbers and Creating Random Data
  • 3. Preparing Data is Half the Battle
    • Cleaning Data
      • Calculating and Removing Outliers
      • Missing Data in Pandas Dataframes
      • Filtering Inappropriate Values
      • Finding Duplicate Rows
      • Removing Punctuation from Column Contents
      • Removing Whitespace from Column Contents
      • Standardizing Dates
      • Standardizing Text like SSN’s, Phone #’s and Zip Codes
    • Creating New Variables
      • Binning Data
      • Applying Function to Groups, Bins and Columns
      • Ranking Rows of Data
      • Create a Column Based on a Conditional
      • Making New Columns Using Functions
      • Converting String Categories to Numeric Variables
    • Organizing the Data
      • Removing and Adding Columns
      • Selecting Columns
      • Change Column Name
      • Setting Column Names to Lower Case
      • Finding Matching Rows
      • Filter Rows Based on Conditions:
      • Selecting Rows Based on Conditions
      • Random Sampling Dataframe
  • 4. Finding the Meaning
    • Computing aggregate statistics
    • Computing Aggregate Statistics on Matching Rows
    • Sorting Data
    • Correlation
    • Regression
    • Regression without Intercept
    • Basic Pivot Table
    • Random Sampling Dataframe
    • Selecting Pandas DataFrame Rows Based on Conditions
    • Distribution Analysis
    • Categorical Variable Analysis
    • Time Series Analysis
  • 5. Visualizing Data
    • Data Quality Report
    • Graph a Dataset - Line Plot
    • Graph a Dataset - Bar Plot
    • Graph a Dataset - Box Plot
    • Graph a Dataset - Histogram
    • Graph a Dataset - Pie Chart
    • Graph a Dataset - Scatter Plot
    • Plotting w/ Image
    • Plotting Data on a Map with Basemap
    • Plotting a Gantt Chart
    • Setting ticks, labels & grids
    • Adding legends & annotations
    • Moving Spines to the Center
  • 6. Practice Problems
    • Pivot Exercise 1
    • Pivot Exercise 2
    • Pivot Exercise 2
    • Pivot Exercise 3
      • Legend
    • Regression Exercise 1
    • Regression Exercise 2
    • Regression Exercise 3
    • Analysis Project
  • Notes

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