In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Installing scikits-learn
Loading an example dataset
Clustering Dow Jones stocks with scikits-learn
Installing scikits-statsmodels
Performing a normality test with scikits-statsmodels
Installing scikits-image
Detecting corners
Detecting edges
Installing pandas
Estimating stock returns correlation with Pandas
Loading data as pandas objects from statsmodels
Resampling time series data
Introduction
Scikits are small, independent projects that are related to SciPy in some way, but are not a part of SciPy. These projects are not entirely independent, but operate under an umbrella, as a consortium of sorts. In this chapter, we will discuss several Scikits projects, such as the following: