Harness IPython for powerful scientific computing and Python data visualization with this collection of more than 100 practical data science recipes
Key Features
- Leverage the new features of the IPython notebook for interactive web-based big data analysis and visualization
- Become an expert in high-performance computing and visualization for data analysis and scientific modeling
- A comprehensive coverage of scientific computing through many hands-on, example-driven recipes with detailed, step-by-step explanations
Book Description
IPython is at the heart of the Python scientific stack. With its widely acclaimed web-based notebook, IPython is today an ideal gateway to data analysis and numerical computing in Python.
IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook contains many ready-to-use focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis. The first part covers programming techniques, including code quality and reproducibility; code optimization; high-performance computing through dynamic compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics.
What you will learn
- Code better by writing high-quality, readable, and well-tested programs; profiling and optimizing your code, and conducting reproducible interactive computing experiments
- Master all of the new features of the IPython notebook, including the interactive HTML/JavaScript widgets
- Analyze data with Bayesian and frequentist statistics (Pandas, PyMC, and R), and learn from data with machine learning (scikit-learn)
- Gain valuable insights into signals, images, and sounds with SciPy, scikit-image, and OpenCV
- Learn how to write blazingly fast Python programs with NumPy, PyTables, ctypes, Numba, Cython, OpenMP, GPU programming (CUDA and OpenCL), parallel IPython, MPI, and many more
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who want to build the next generation of state-of-the-art mobile and desktop web applications with Angular. This book does not require you to have prior exposure to either Angular 1.x, 2 or 4, although comprehensive knowledge of JavaScript is assumed.
Dr. Cyrille Rossant is a French researcher in computational neuroscience. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science, he has also worked at Princeton University and University College London. He is interested in all kinds of relationships between brains and computers, including models of neural processing, high-performance simulations of neural networks, and analysis of neurophysiologic data.
He has also worked on parallel computing and high-performance visualization technologies for Python, and he is a core developer of Vispy, a visualization package. He is the author of Learning IPython for Interactive Computing and Data Visualization, Packt Publishing, the prequel of this cookbook.
