Data Science Using Python

<p>This is a book about doing data science with Python which immediately begs the question: what is data science? It's a surprisingly hard definition to nail down especially given how ubiquitous the term has become. Vocal critics have variously dismissed the term as a superfluous label (after all what science doesn't involve data?) or a simple buzzword that only exists to salt resumes and catch the eye of overzealous tech recruiters.</p><p>The book is not meant to be an introduction to Python or to programming in general; I assume the reader has familiarity with the Python language including defining functions assigning variables calling methods of objects controlling the flow of a program and other basic tasks. Instead it is meant to help Python users learn to use Python's data science stack-libraries such as IPython NumPy Pandas Matplotlib Scikit-Learn and related tools-to effectively store manipulate and gain insight from data.</p>