Python for data mining quick syntax reference / Valentina Porcu

Includes index

Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Introduction; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Installing Python; Editor and IDEs; Differences between Python2 and Python3; Work Directory; Using a Terminal; Summary; Chapter 2: Introductory Notes; Objects in Python; Reserved Terms for the System; Entering Comments in the Code; Types of Data; File Format; Operators; Mathematical Operators; Comparison and Membership Operators; Bitwise Operators; Assignment Operators; Operator Order; Indentation; Quotation Marks; Summary; Chapter 3: Basic Objects and Structures; Numbers
Container ObjectsTuples; Lists; Dictionaries; Sets; Strings; Files; Immutability; Converting Formats; Summary; Chapter 4: Functions; Some words about functions in Python; Some Predefined Built-in Functions; Obtain Function Information; Create Your Own Functions; Save and run Your Own Modules and Files; Summary; Chapter 5: Conditional Instructions and Writing Functions; Conditional Instructions; if; if + else; elif; Loops; for; while; continue and break; Extend Functions with Conditional Instructions; map() and filter() Functions; The lambda Function; Scope; Summary
Chapter 6: Other Basic ConceptsObject-oriented Programming; More on Objects; Classes; Inheritance; Modules; Methods; List Comprehension; Regular Expressions; User Input; Errors and Exceptions; Summary; Chapter 7: Importing Files; .csv Format; From the Web; In JSON; Other Formats; Summary; Chapter 8: pandas; Libraries for Data Mining; pandas; pandas: Series; pandas: Data Frames; pandas: Importing and Exporting Data; pandas: Data Manipulation; pandas: Missing Values; pandas: Merging Two Datasets; pandas: Basic Statistics; Summary; Chapter 9: SciPy and NumPy; SciPy; NumPy
NumPy: Generating Random Numbers and SeedsSummary; Chapter 10: Matplotlib; Basic Plots; Pie Charts; Other Plots and Charts; Saving Plots and Charts; Selecting Plot and Chart Styles; More on Histograms; Summary; Chapter 11: Scikit-learn; What Is Machine Learning?; Import Datasets Included in Scikit-learn; Creation of Training and Testing Datasets; Preprocessing; Regression; K-Nearest Neighbors; Cross-validation; Support Vector Machine; Decision Trees; KMeans; Managing Dates; Data Sources; Index

Learn how to use Python and its structures, how to install
Python, and which tools are best suited for data analyst
work. This book provides you with a handy reference and
tutorial on topics ranging from basic Python concepts
through to data mining, manipulating and importing
datasets, and data analysis. Python for Data Mining Quick
Syntax Reference covers each concept concisely, with many
illustrative examples. You'll be introduced to several
data mining packages, with examples of how to use each of
them. The first part covers core Python including objects,
lists, functions, modules, and error handling. The second
part covers Python's most important data mining packages:
NumPy and SciPy for mathematical functions and random data
generation, pandas for dataframe management and data
import, Matplotlib for drawing charts, and scikitlearn for
machine learning