Getting started with exploratory data analysis in IPython
In this recipe, we will give an introduction to IPython for data analysis. Most of the subject has been covered in the Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization book, but we will review the basics here.
We will download and analyze a dataset about attendance on Montreal's bicycle tracks. This example is largely inspired by a presentation from Julia Evans (available at http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/jvns/talks/blob/master/mtlpy35/pistes-cyclables.ipynb). Specifically, we will introduce the following:
- Data manipulation with pandas
- Data visualization with matplotlib
- Interactive widgets with IPython 2.0+
How to do it...
- The very first step is to import the scientific packages ...
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