Pandas 1.x Cookbook
Second Edition
Practical recipes for scientific computing, time series analysis, and exploratory data analysis using Python
Matt Harrison
Theodore Petrou
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Pandas 1.x Cookbook
Second Edition
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Second edition: February 2020
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Contributors
About the authors
Matt Harrison has been using Python since 2000. He runs MetaSnake, which provides corporate training for Python and Data Science.
He is the author of Machine Learning Pocket Reference, the best-selling Illustrated Guide to Python 3, and Learning the Pandas Library, as well as other books.
Theodore Petrou is a data scientist and the founder of Dunder Data, a professional educational company focusing on exploratory data analysis. He is also the head of Houston Data Science, a meetup group with more than 2,000 members that has the primary goal of getting local data enthusiasts together in the same room to practice data science. Before founding Dunder Data, Ted was a data scientist at Schlumberger, a large oil services company, where he spent the vast majority of his time exploring data.
Some of his projects included using targeted sentiment analysis to discover the root cause of part failure from engineer text, developing customized client/server dashboarding applications, and real-time web services to avoid the mispricing of sales items. Ted received his masters degree in statistics from Rice University, and used his analytical skills to play poker professionally and teach math before becoming a data scientist. Ted is a strong supporter of learning through practice and can often be found answering questions about pandas on Stack Overflow.
About the reviewer
Simon Hawkins holds a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from Imperial College London. During the early part of his career, he worked exclusively in the defense and nuclear sectors as a technology analyst focusing on various modelling capabilities and simulation techniques for high-integrity equipment. He then transitioned into the world of e-commerce and the focus shifted toward data analysis. Today, he is interested in all things data science and is a member of the pandas core development team.