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An Introduction to Scientific Python – Pandas

Pandas has got to be one of my most favourite libraries... Ever. Pandas allows us to deal with data in a way that us humans can understand it; with labelled columns and indexes. It allows us to effortlessly import data from files such as csvs, allows us to quickly apply complex transformations and …

An Introduction to Scientific Python – NumPy

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Oh the amazing things you can do with Numpy. NumPy is a blazing fast maths library for Python with a heavy emphasis on arrays. It allows you to do vector and matrix maths within Python and as a lot of the underlying functions are actually written in C, you get speeds that you would never reach in …

A Quick Guide to Slicing in Python – Become a Python Ninja

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Slicing is an incredibly useful and powerful feature of python. It gives you to ability to manipulate sequences with simple and concise syntax. Slicing has more uses than I can think of or list here, but some of many useful applications include string manipulation and various mathematical uses; when …