CHAPTER 8

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Science and Visualization

Numerical Analysis and Signal Processing

I’ve covered many topics associated with data analysis and visualization: reading and writing files, text processing and converting text to numerical data, plotting and graphing, writing scripts, and implementing algorithms. It’s time to take a deeper dive and analyze numerical data.

This chapter deals with two important topics: numerical analysis and signal processing. These two topics appear in many sciences: mathematics, computing, engineering, and more. From a simplistic point of view, numerical analysis is concerned with algorithms that yield numerical values: a ...

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