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"![](images/EscUpmPolit_p.gif \"UPM\")"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"source": [
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"# Course Notes for Learning Intelligent Systems"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Department of Telematic Engineering Systems, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, © Carlos A. Iglesias"
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]
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"source": [
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"## [Introduction to Machine Learning](2_0_0_Intro_ML.ipynb)"
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"# Table of Contents\n",
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"* [Data munging with Pandas and Scikit-learn](#Data-munging-with-Pandas-and-Scikit-learn)\n",
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"* [Examining a DataFrame](#Examining-a-DataFrame)\n",
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"* [Selecting rows in a DataFrame](#Selecting-rows-in-a-DataFrame)\n",
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"* [Grouping](#Grouping)\n",
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"* [Pivot tables](#Pivot-tables)\n",
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"* [Null and missing values](#Null-and-missing-values)\n",
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"* [Analysing non numerical columns](#Analysing-non-numerical-columns)\n",
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"* [Encoding categorical values](#Encoding-categorical-values)"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"# Data munging with Pandas and Scikit-learn"
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]
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"This notebook provides a more detailed introduction to Pandas and scikit-learn using the Titanic dataset."
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"[**Data munging**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_wrangling) or data wrangling is loosely the process of manually converting or mapping data from one \"raw\" form (*datos en bruto*) into another format that allows for more convenient consumption of the data with the help of semi-automated tools.\n",
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"\n",
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"*Scikit-learn* estimators which assume that all values are numerical. This is a common in many machine learning libraries. So, we need to preprocess our raw dataset. \n",
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"Some of the most common tasks are:\n",
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"* Remove samples with missing values or replace the missing values with a value (median, mean or interpolation)\n",
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"* Encode categorical variables as integers\n",
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"* Combine datasets\n",
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"* Rename variables and convert types\n",
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"* Transform / scale variables\n",
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"\n",
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"We are going to play again with the Titanic dataset to practice with Pandas Dataframes and introduce a number of preprocessing facilities of scikit-learn.\n",
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"\n",
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"First we load the dataset and we get a dataframe."
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]
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"import numpy as np\n",
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"import pandas as pd\n",
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"from pandas import Series, DataFrame\n",
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"\n",
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"df = pd.read_csv('data-titanic/train.csv')\n",
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"\n",
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"# Show the first 5 rows\n",
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"df[:5]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"## Examining a DataFrame"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"We can examine properties of the dataset."
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Information about columns and their types\n",
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"df.info()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"We see some features have a numerical type (int64 and float64), and others has a type *object*. The object type is a String in Pandas. We observe that most features are integers, except for Name, Sex, Ticket, Cabin and Embarked."
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# We can list non numerical properties, with a boolean indexing of the Series df.dtypes\n",
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"df.dtypes[df.dtypes == object]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Let's explore the DataFrame."
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Number of samples and features\n",
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"df.shape"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Basic statistics of the dataset in all the numeric columns\n",
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"df.describe()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Observe that some of the statistics do not make sense in some columns (PassengerId or Pclass), we could have selected only the interesting columns."
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Describe statistics of relevant columns. We pass a list of columns\n",
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"df[['Survived', 'Age', 'SibSp', 'Parch', 'Fare']].describe()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"## Selecting rows in a DataFrame"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select the first 5 rows\n",
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"df.head(5)"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select the last 5 rows\n",
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"df.tail(5)"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select several rows\n",
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"df[2:5]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select the first 5 values of a column by name\n",
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"df['Survived'][:5]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select several columns. Observe that the first parameter is a list\n",
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"df[['Survived', 'Sex', 'Age']][:5]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Passengers older than 20. Observe dataframe columns can be accessed like attributes.\n",
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"df.Age > 30"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select passengers older than 20 (only the last 5). We use boolean indexing\n",
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"df[df.Age > 20][-5:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select passengers older than 20 that survived (only the last 5)\n",
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"df[(df.Age > 20) & (df.Survived == 1)][-5:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Alternative syntax with query to the standard Python \n",
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"# In large dataframes, the perfomance of DataFrame.query() using numexpr is considerable faster, look at the references\n",
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"df.query('Age > 20 and Survived == 1')[-5:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"DataFrames provide a set of functions for selection that we will need later\n",
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"\n",
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"\n",
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"|Operation | Syntax | Result |\n",
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"|-----------------------------|\n",
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"|Select column | df[col] | Series |\n",
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"|Select row by label | df.loc[label] | Series |\n",
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"|Select row by integer location | df.iloc[loc] | Series |\n",
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"|Slice rows\t | df[5:10]\t | DataFrame |\n",
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"|Select rows by boolean vector | df[bool_vec] | DataFrame |"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select column and show last 4\n",
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"df['Age'][-4:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select row by label. We select with [index-labels, column-labels], and show last 4\n",
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"df.loc[:, 'Age'][-4:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Select row by column index (Age is the column 5), and show last 4\n",
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"df.iloc[:, 5][-4:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Slice rows - last 5 columns\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Select based on boolean vector and show last 5 columns\n",
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"df[df.Age > 20][-5:]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"## Grouping"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Rows can be grouped by one or more columns, and apply aggregated operators on the GroupBy object."
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Number of users per sex (SQL like)\n",
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"df.groupby('Sex').size()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Mean age of passengers per Passenger class\n",
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"\n",
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"#First we calculate the mean\n",
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"df.groupby('Pclass').mean()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#And now we answer the initial query (only mean age)\n",
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"df.groupby('Pclass')['Age'].mean()"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Alternative syntax\n",
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"df.groupby('Pclass').Age.mean()"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Mean Age and SibSp of passengers grouped by passenger class and sex\n",
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"df.groupby(['Pclass', 'Sex'])['Age','SibSp'].mean()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Show mean Age and SibSp for passengers older than 25 grouped by Passenger Class and Sex\n",
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"df[df.Age > 25].groupby(['Pclass', 'Sex'])['Age','SibSp'].mean()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Mean age, SibSp , Survived of passengers older than 25 which survived, grouped by Passenger Class and Sex \n",
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"df[(df.Age > 25 & (df.Survived == 1))].groupby(['Pclass', 'Sex'])['Age','SibSp','Survived'].mean()"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# We can also decide which function apply in each column\n",
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"\n",
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"#Show mean Age, mean SibSp, and number of passengers older than 25 that survived, grouped by Passenger Class and Sex\n",
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"df[(df.Age > 25 & (df.Survived == 1))].groupby(['Pclass', 'Sex'])['Age','SibSp','Survived'].agg({'Age': np.mean, \n",
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" 'SibSp': np.mean, 'Survived': np.size})"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"# Pivot tables"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Pivot tables are an intuitive way to analyze data, and alternative to group columns."
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"pd.pivot_table(df, index='Sex')"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"pd.pivot_table(df, index=['Sex', 'Pclass'])"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"pd.pivot_table(df, index=['Sex', 'Pclass'], values=['Age', 'SibSp'])"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"pd.pivot_table(df, index=['Sex', 'Pclass'], values=['Age', 'SibSp'], aggfunc=np.mean)"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Try np.sum, np.size, len\n",
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"pd.pivot_table(df, index=['Sex', 'Pclass'], values=['Age', 'SibSp'], aggfunc=[np.mean, np.sum])"
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]
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Try np.sum, np.size, len\n",
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"table = pd.pivot_table(df, index=['Sex', 'Pclass', 'Survived'], values=['Age', 'SibSp'], aggfunc=[np.mean, np.sum],\n",
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" columns=['Embarked'])\n",
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"table"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"table.query('Survived == 1')"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"## Duplicates"
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": []
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"df.duplicated().any()"
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]
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"In this case there not duplicates. In case we would needed, we could have removed them with [*df.drop_duplicates()*](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.drop_duplicates.html), which can receive a list of columns to be considered for identifying duplicates (otherwise, it uses all the columns)."
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"## Null and missing values"
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"Here we check how many null values there are.\n",
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"\n",
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"We use sum() instead of count() or we would get the total number of records). Notice how we do not use size() now, either. You can print 'df.isnull()' and will see a DataFrame with boolean values."
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"df.isnull().sum()"
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"cell_type": "code",
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"# Drop records with missing values\n",
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"df_original = df.copy()\n",
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"df_clean = df.dropna()\n",
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"print(\"Original\", df.shape)\n",
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"print(\"Cleaned\", df_clean.shape)"
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]
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"metadata": {},
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"Most of samples have been deleted. We could have used [*dropna*](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.dropna.html) with the argument *how=all* that deletes a sample if all the values are missing, instead of the default *how=any*."
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]
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"# Fill missing values with the median\n",
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"df_filled = df.fillna(df.median())\n",
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"df_filled[-5:]"
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]
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#The original df has not been modified\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Observe that the Passenger with 889 has now an Agent of 28 (median) instead of NaN. \n",
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"\n",
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"Regarding the column *cabins*, there are still NaN values, since the *Cabin* column is not numeric. We will see later how to change it.\n",
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"\n",
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"In addition, we could drop rows with any or all null values (method *dropna()*).\n",
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"\n",
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"If we want to modify directly the *df* object, we should add the parameter *inplace* with value *True*."
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"df['Age'].fillna(df['Age'].mean(), inplace=True)\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Another possibility is to assign the modified dataframe\n",
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"# First we get the df with NaN values\n",
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"df = df_original.copy()\n",
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"#Fill NaN and assign to the column\n",
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"df['Age'] = df['Age'].fillna(df['Age'].median())\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Now we are going to see how to change the Sex value of PassengerId 889, and then replace the missing values of Sex. It is just an example for practicing."
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# There are not labels for rows, so we use the numeric index\n",
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"df.iloc[889]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#We access row and column\n",
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"df.iloc[889]['Sex']"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# But we are working on a copy \n",
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"df.iloc[889]['Sex'] = np.nan"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# If we want to change, we should not chain selections\n",
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"# The selection can be done with the column name\n",
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"df.loc[889, 'Sex']"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Or with the index of the column\n",
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"df.iloc[889, 4]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# This indexing works for changing values\n",
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"df.loc[889, 'Sex'] = np.nan\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"df['Sex'].fillna('male', inplace=True)\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"There are other interesting possibilities of **fillna**. We can fill with the previous valid value (**method=bfill**) or the next valid value (**method=ffill**). For example, with time series, it is frequent to use the last valid value (bfill). Another alternative is to use the method **interpolate()**.\n",
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"\n",
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"Look at the [documentation](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/missing_data.html) for more details.\n"
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]
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"\n",
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"**Scikit-learn** provides also a preprocessing facility for managing null values in the [**Imputer**](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/preprocessing.html) class. We can include *Imputer* as a step in the *Pipeline*."
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]
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},
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"# Analysing non numerical columns"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"As we saw, we have several non numerical columns: **Name**, **Sex**, **Ticket**, **Cabin** and **Embarked**.\n",
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"\n",
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"**Name** and **Ticket** do not seem informative.\n",
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"\n",
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"Regarding **Cabin**, most values were missing, so we can ignore it. \n",
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"\n",
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"**Sex** and **Embarked** are categorical features, so we will encode as integers."
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# We remove Cabin and Ticket. We should specify the axis\n",
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"# Use axis 0 for dropping rows and axis 1 for dropping columns\n",
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"df.drop(['Cabin', 'Ticket'], axis=1, inplace=True)\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"# Encoding categorical values"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"*Sex* has been codified as a categorical feature. It is better to encode features as continuous variables, since scikit-learn estimators expect continuous input, and they would interpret the categories as being ordered, which is not the case. "
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#First we check if there is any null values. Observe the use of any()\n",
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"df['Sex'].isnull().any()"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Now we check the values of Sex\n",
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"df['Sex'].unique()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Now we are going to encode the values with our pandas knowledge."
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"df.loc[df[\"Sex\"] == \"male\", \"Sex\"] = 0\n",
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"df.loc[df[\"Sex\"] == \"female\", \"Sex\"] = 1\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#An alternative is to create a new column with the encoded valuesm and define a mapping\n",
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"df = df_original.copy()\n",
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"df['Gender'] = df['Sex'].map( {'male': 0, 'female': 1} ).astype(int)\n",
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"df.head()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Check nulls\n",
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"df['Embarked'].isnull().any()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Check how many nulls\n",
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"\n",
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"df['Embarked'].isnull().sum()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Check values\n",
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"df['Embarked'].unique()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Check distribution of Embarked\n",
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"df.groupby('Embarked').size()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"#Replace nulls with the most common value\n",
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"df['Embarked'].fillna('S', inplace=True)\n",
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"df['Embarked'].isnull().any()"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "code",
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"execution_count": null,
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"metadata": {},
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"outputs": [],
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"source": [
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"# Now we replace as previosly the categories with integers\n",
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"df.loc[df[\"Embarked\"] == \"S\", \"Embarked\"] = 0\n",
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"df.loc[df[\"Embarked\"] == \"C\", \"Embarked\"] = 1\n",
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"df.loc[df[\"Embarked\"] == \"Q\", \"Embarked\"] = 2\n",
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"df[-5:]"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"Although this transformation can be ok, we are introducing *an error*. Some classifiers could think that there is an order in S, C, Q, and that Q is higher than S. \n",
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"\n",
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"To avoid this error, Scikit learn provides a facility for transforming all the categorical features into integer ones. In fact, it creates a new dummy binary feature per category. This means, in this case, Embarked=S would be represented as S=1, C=0 and Q=0.\n",
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"\n",
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"We will learn how to do this in the next notebook. More details can be found in the [Scikit-learn documentation](http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/preprocessing.html)."
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"# References"
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]
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},
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"* [Pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org/)\n",
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"* [Learning Pandas, Michael Heydt, Packt Publishing, 2015](http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/python/9781783985128)\n",
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"* [Useful Pandas Snippets](https://gist.github.com/bsweger/e5817488d161f37dcbd2)\n",
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"* [Pandas. Introduction to Data Structures](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/dsintro.html#dsintro)\n",
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"* [Introducing Pandas Objects](https://www.oreilly.com/learning/introducing-pandas-objects)\n",
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"* [Boolean Operators in Pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/indexing.html#boolean-operators)"
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]
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},
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"## Licence"
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]
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},
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{
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"cell_type": "markdown",
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"metadata": {},
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"source": [
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"The notebook is freely licensed under under the [Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). \n",
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"\n",
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"© Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid."
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