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Writing Efficient Code with pandas

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更新时间 2022年8月

Learn efficient techniques in pandas to optimize your Python code.

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课程描述

The ability to efficiently work with big datasets and extract valuable information is an indispensable tool for every aspiring data scientist. When working with a small amount of data, we often don’t realize how slow code execution can be. This course will build on your knowledge of Python and the pandas library and introduce you to efficient built-in pandas functions to perform tasks faster. Pandas’ built-in functions allow you to tackle the simplest tasks, like targeting specific entries and features from the data, to the most complex tasks, like applying functions on groups of entries, much faster than Python's usual methods. By the end of this course, you will be able to apply a function to data based on a feature value, iterate through big datasets rapidly, and manipulate data belonging to different groups efficiently. You will apply these methods on a variety of real-world datasets, such as poker hands or restaurant tips.

先决条件

Data Manipulation with pandas

1

Selecting columns and rows efficiently

This chapter will give you an overview of why efficient code matters and selecting specific and random rows and columns efficiently.

The need for efficient coding I

What does time.time() measure?

Measuring time I

Measuring time II

Locate rows: .iloc[] and .loc[]

Row selection: loc[] vs iloc[]

Column selection: .iloc[] vs by name

Select random rows

Random row selection

Random column selection

2

Replacing values in a DataFrame

This chapter shows the usage of the replace() function for replacing one or multiple values using lists and dictionaries.

Replace scalar values using .replace()

Replacing scalar values I

Replace scalar values II

Replace values using lists

Replace multiple values I

Replace multiple values II

Replace values using dictionaries

Replace single values I

Replace single values II

Replace multiple values III

Most efficient method for scalar replacement

3

Efficient iterating

This chapter presents different ways of iterating through a Pandas DataFrame and why vectorization is the most efficient way to achieve it.

Looping using the .iterrows() function

Create a generator for a pandas DataFrame

The iterrows() function for looping

Looping using the .apply() function

.apply() function in every cell

.apply() for rows iteration

Vectorization over pandas series

Why vectorization in pandas is so fast?

pandas vectorization in action

Vectorization with NumPy arrays using .values()

Best method of vectorization

Vectorization methods for looping a DataFrame

4

Data manipulation using .groupby()

This chapter describes the groupby() function and how we can use it to transform values in place, replace missing values and apply complex functions group-wise.

Data transformation using .groupby().transform

The min-max normalization using .transform()

Transforming values to probabilities

Validation of normalization

When to use transform()?

Missing value imputation using transform()

Identifying missing values

Missing value imputation

Data filtration using the filter() function

When to use filtration?

Data filtration

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