Beginning Python Visualization Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts

We are visual animals. But before we can see the world in its true splendor, our brains, just like our computers, have to sort and organize raw data, and then transform that data to produce new images of the world. Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts, Second Editio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vaingast, Shai. author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : Apress 2014.
Edición:2nd ed. 2014.
Colección:The expert's voice in Python
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629478106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents at a Glance""; ""Contents""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Technical Reviewer""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Navigating the World of Data Visualization""; ""Gathering Data""; ""Case Study: GPS Data""; ""Scanning Serial Ports""; ""Recording GPS Data""; ""Data Organization""; ""File Format""; ""File Naming Conventions""; ""Data Location""; ""Data Analysis""; ""Walking Directories""; ""Reading CSV Files""; ""Analyzing GPS Data""; ""Extracting GPS Data""; ""Data Visualization""; ""GPS Location Plot""; ""Annotating the Graph""; ""Velocity Plot""; ""Subplots""
  • ""Text""""Tying It All Together""; ""Final Notes and References""; ""Chapter 2: The Environment""; ""Tools of the Trade""; ""Operating Systems""; ""GNU/Linux""; ""Windows""; ""Stand-Alone (Natively)""; ""Cygwin""; ""Virtual Machines""; ""Choosing an Operating System""; ""Then Again, Why Choose? Using Several Operating Systems""; ""The Python Environment""; ""Versions""; ""Python""; ""Python Distributions with Scientific Packages""; ""Python Integrated Development Environments""; ""IDLE""; ""IPython""; ""IPython Notebook""; ""Spyder""; ""Scientific Computing""; ""NumPy""; ""SciPy""
  • ""Matplotlib""""Image Processing""; ""PySerial""; ""Manually Installing a Python Package""; ""Installation Summary""; ""Additional Applications""; ""Editors""; ""Selecting the Proper Editor for You""; ""A Short List of Text Editors""; ""Spreadsheets""; ""Word Processors""; ""Image Viewers""; ""Version-Control Systems""; ""Example: Directory Structure for the Book""; ""Licensing""; ""Final Notes and References""; ""Chapter 3: Python for Programmers""; ""The Building Blocks""; ""What Is Python?""; ""Interactive Python""; ""Invoking Python""; ""Entering Commands""; ""The Result Variable""
  • ""The Interactive Help System""""Moving Around""; ""Running Scripts""; ""Data Types""; ""Numbers""; ""Integers""; ""Other Useful Bases""; ""Comparisons""; ""Bitwise Operations""; ""Augmented Assignments""; ""Float and Complex""; ""Strings""; ""Expressing Strings""; ""String Operations""; ""Booleans""; ""Logical Operations""; ""Data Structures""; ""Lists""; ""Tuples""; ""Dictionaries""; ""Sets""; ""Variables""; ""Statements""; ""Printing""; ""Suppressing Line Breaks""; ""Format Specifications""; ""User Input""; ""Comments""; ""Flow Control""; ""if, elif, else""; ""The pass Statement""
  • ""Exceptions: try, else, and finally""""Iterators""; ""The for Statement""; ""List Comprehensions""; ""The while Statement""; ""Statements break and continue""; ""Some Built-in Functions""; ""Defining Functions""; ""Generators""; ""Generator Expressions""; ""Object-Oriented Programming""; ""Modules and Packages""; ""The import Statement""; ""Modules Installed in a System""; ""The dir Statement""; ""Final Notes and References""; ""Chapter 4: Data Organization""; ""Organizing Chaos""; ""File Name Conventions""; ""Date and Time in a File Name""; ""Useful File Name Titles""
  • ""File Name Extensions""