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Python for Data Analysis is concerned with the nuts and bolts of manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching data in Python. It is also a practical, modern introduction to scientific computing in Python, tailored for data-intensive applications. This is a book about the parts of the Python language and libraries you’ll need to effectively solve a broad set of data analysis problems. This book is not an exposition on analytical methods using Python as the implementation language.

Written by Wes McKinney, the main author of the pandas library, this hands-on book is packed with practical cases studies. It’s ideal for analysts new to Python and for Python programmers new to scientific computing.

    Use the IPython interactive shell as your primary development environment
    Learn basic and advanced NumPy (Numerical Python) features
    Get started with data analysis tools in the pandas library
    Use high-performance tools to load, clean, transform, merge, and reshape data
    Create scatter plots and static or interactive visualizations with matplotlib
    Apply the pandas groupby facility to slice, dice, and summarize datasets
    Measure data by points in time, whether it’s specific instances, fixed periods, or intervals
    Learn how to solve problems in web analytics, social sciences, finance, and economics, through detailed examples

Wes McKinney is the main author of pandas, the popular open source Python library for data analysis. Wes is an active speaker and participant in the Python and open source communities. He worked as a quantitative analyst at AQR Capital Management before founding an enterprise data analysis company, Lambda Foundry, in 2012. He graduated from MIT with an S.B. in Mathematics.

Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Released: October 2012
Pages: 472