Python for Programmers (1 ed)

Python for Programmers: with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Case Studies 1st Edition

The professional programmer’s Deitel guide to Python with introductory artificial intelligence case studies

Written for programmers with a background in another high-level language, this book uses hands-on instruction to teach today’s most compelling, leading-edge computing technologies and programming in Python–one of the world’s most popular and fastest-growing languages. Please read the Table of Contents diagram inside the front cover and the Preface for more details.

Features

• 500+ hands-on, real-world, live-code examples from snippets to case studies
• IPython + code in Jupyter Notebooks
• Library-focused: Uses Python Standard Library and data science libraries to accomplish significant tasks with minimal code
• Rich Python coverage: Control statements, functions, strings, files, JSON serialization, CSV, exceptions
• Procedural, functional-style, and object-oriented programming
• Collections: Lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets, NumPy arrays, pandas Series & DataFrames
• Static, dynamic, and interactive visualizations
• Data experiences with real-world datasets and data sources
• Intro to Data Science sections: AI, basic stats, simulation, animation, random variables, data wrangling, regression
• AI, big data, and cloud data science case studies: NLP, data mining Twitter, IBM Watson™, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, Hadoop, Spark™, NoSQL, IoT
• Open-source libraries: NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Folium, SciPy, NLTK, TextBlob, spaCy, Textatistic, Tweepy, scikit-learn, Keras, and more.