When doing a bit of good old data exploration and analysis you'll often want ways of visually representing this data. It helps you understand what you're working with, and allows you to present your exciting new discoveries to other people in easy-to-digest formats that even the data illiterate can …
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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 …
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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 …
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One of the most popular uses for Python, especially in recent years is data processing, analysis and visualisation. This then leads topics such as the analysis of 'big data' which has many applications in pretty much every type of business you can imagine, and a personal interest of mine; Machine …
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