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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

4.5 (13)
By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Intended to anyone interested in numerical computing and data science: students, researchers, teachers, engineers, analysts, hobbyists... Basic knowledge of Python/NumPy is recommended. Some skills in mathematics will help you understand the theory behind the computational methods.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Index

Exploring a dataset with pandas and matplotlib


In this first recipe, we will show how to conduct a preliminary analysis of a dataset with pandas. This is typically the first step after getting access to the data. pandas lets us load the data very easily, explore the variables, and make basic plots with matplotlib.

We will take a look at a dataset containing all ATP matches played by four tennis players until 2012. Here, we will focus on Roger Federer.

Getting ready

Download the Tennis dataset from the book's GitHub repository at https://github.com/ipython-books/cookbook-data, and extract it to the current directory.

How to do it...

  1. We import NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib:

    In [1]: import numpy as np
            import pandas as pd
            import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
            %matplotlib inline
  2. The dataset is a CSV file, that is, a text file with comma-separated values. pandas lets us load this file with a single function:

    In [2]: player = 'Roger Federer'
            filename = "data/{name}.csv".format...

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