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You're reading from Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications A fun, project-based guide to learning Python 3 while building real-world apps

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789535365

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Pygame

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Philipp Kats

David Katz

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Python FREE CHAPTER

2. Preparing the Workspace

3. First Steps in Coding - Variables and Data Types

4. Functions

5. Data Structures

6. Loops and Other Compound Statements

7. First Script – Geocoding with Web APIs

8. Scraping Data from the Web with Beautiful Soup 4

9. Simulation with Classes and Inheritance

10. Shell, Git, Conda, and More – at Your Command

11. Section 2: Hands-On with Data

12. Python for Data Applications

13. Data Cleaning and Manipulation

14. Data Exploration and Visualization

15. Training a Machine Learning Model

16. Improving Your Model – Pipelines and Experiments

17. Section 3: Moving to Production

18. Packaging and Testing with Poetry and PyTest

19. Data Pipelines with Luigi

20. Let's Build a Dashboard

21. Serving Models with a RESTful API

22. Serverless API Using Chalice

23. Best Practices and Python Performance

24. Assessments

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

This chapter does not require any additional packages; all the code is available in the Chapter04 folder of the GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Python-by-Building-Data-Science-Applications).

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Authors (2)

Kats

Philipp Kats is a researcher at the Urban Complexity Lab, NYU CUSP, a research fellow at Kazan Federal University, and a data scientist at StreetEasy, with many years of experience in software development. His interests include data analysis, urban studies, data journalism, and visualization. Having a bachelor's degree in architectural design and a having followed the rocky path (at first) of being a self-taught developer, Philipp knows the pain points of learning programming and is eager to share his experience.

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Katz

David Katz is a researcher and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics. As a mathematician at heart, he sees code as a tool to express his questions. David believes that code literacy is essential as it applies to most disciplines and professions. David is passionate about sharing his knowledge and has 6 years of experience teaching college and high school students.

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