Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization - Second Edition

by Cyrille Rossant

Overview

Python is a user-friendly and powerful programming language. IPython offers a convenient interface to the language and its analysis libraries, while the Jupyter Notebook is a rich environment well-adapted to data science and visualization. Together, these open source tools are widely used by beginners and experts around the world, and in a huge variety of fields and endeavors.

This book is a beginner-friendly guide to the Python data analysis platform. After an introduction to the Python language, IPython, and the Jupyter Notebook, you will learn how to analyze and visualize data on real-world examples, how to create graphical user interfaces for image processing in the Notebook, and how to perform fast numerical computations for scientific simulations with NumPy, Numba, Cython, and ipyparallel. By the end of this book, you will be able to perform in-depth analyses of all sorts of data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783986996
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	10/21/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Cyrille Rossant is a researcher in neuroinformatics, and is a graduate of Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, where he studied mathematics and computer science. He has worked at Princeton University, University College London, and College de France. As part of his data science and software engineering projects, he gained experience in machine learning, high-performance computing, parallel computing, and big data visualization.
He is one of the main developers of VisPy, a high-performance visualization package in Python. He is the author of the IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Packt Publishing, an advanced-level guide to data science and numerical computing with Python, and the sequel of this book.