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Python basics for data science including lists, variables, data types, calculations, strings, importing libraries, NumPy arrays, selecting elements, operations, functions. Key concepts covered are lists, dictionaries, variables, data types, calculations, strings, importing/selecting from libraries, NumPy arrays, selecting/slicing elements, operations on arrays, functions for analyzing arrays. The document provides a cheat sheet on core Python concepts for working with data.

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Python basics for data science including lists, variables, data types, calculations, strings, importing libraries, NumPy arrays, selecting elements, operations, functions. Key concepts covered are lists, dictionaries, variables, data types, calculations, strings, importing/selecting from libraries, NumPy arrays, selecting/slicing elements, operations on arrays, functions for analyzing arrays. The document provides a cheat sheet on core Python concepts for working with data.

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Python For Data Science Cheat Sheet

Python Basics

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Lists
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

Also see NumPy Arrays


a = 'is'
b = 'nice'
my_list = ['my', 'list', a, b]
my_list2 = [[4,5,6,7], [3,4,5,6]]

Selecting List Elements

Variables and Data Types

Subset

Variable Assignment
>>> x=5
>>> x
5

>>> my_list[1]
>>> my_list[-3]

Select item at index 1


Select 3rd last item

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

Select items at index 1 and 2


Select items after index 0
Select items before index 3
Copy my_list

Slice

Calculations With Variables

>>> x+2

Sum of two variables

>>> x-2

Subtraction of two variables

>>> x*2

Multiplication of two variables

>>> x**2

Exponentiation of a variable

>>> x%2

Remainder of a variable

>>> x/float(2)

Division of a variable

10
25
1

Index starts at 0

2.5

my_list[1:3]
my_list[1:]
my_list[:3]
my_list[:]

Subset Lists of Lists

>>> my_list2[1][0]
>>> my_list2[1][:2]

my_list[list][itemOfList]

str()

'5', '3.45', 'True'

Variables to strings

int()

5, 3, 1

Variables to integers

>>> my_list + my_list

['my', 'list', 'is', 'nice', 'my', 'list', 'is', 'nice']

>>> my_list * 2

['my', 'list', 'is', 'nice', 'my', 'list', 'is', 'nice']

>>> my_list2 > 4

float()

5.0, 1.0

Variables to floats

bool()

True, True, True

Variables to booleans

Asking For Help


>>> help(str)

my_list.index(a)
my_list.count(a)
my_list.append('!')
my_list.remove('!')
del(my_list[0:1])
my_list.reverse()
my_list.extend('!')
my_list.pop(-1)
my_list.insert(0,'!')
my_list.sort()

'thisStringIsAwesome'

String Operations
>>> my_string * 2

'thisStringIsAwesomethisStringIsAwesome'

>>> my_string + 'Innit'


'thisStringIsAwesomeInnit'

>>> 'm' in my_string


True

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Numpy Arrays

Also see Lists

Selecting Numpy Array Elements


Subset

>>> my_array[1]

Get the index of an item


Count an item
Append an item at a time
Remove an item
Remove an item
Reverse the list
Append an item
Remove an item
Insert an item
Sort the list

Index starts at 0

Select item at index 1

Slice

>>> my_array[0:2]

Select items at index 0 and 1

array([1, 2])

Subset 2D Numpy arrays

>>> my_2darray[:,0]

my_2darray[rows, columns]

array([1, 4])

Numpy Array Operations


>>> my_array > 3

array([False, False, False,

>>> my_array * 2

True], dtype=bool)

array([2, 4, 6, 8])

>>> my_array + np.array([5, 6, 7, 8])


array([6, 8, 10, 12])

Strings
>>> my_string = 'thisStringIsAwesome'
>>> my_string

Data analysis

Install Python

List Methods
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

Import libraries
>>> import numpy
>>> import numpy as np
Selective import
>>> from math import pi

>>> my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4]


>>> my_array = np.array(my_list)
>>> my_2darray = np.array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])

List Operations

True

Types and Type Conversion

Libraries

String Operations

Index starts at 0

>>> my_string[3]
>>> my_string[4:9]

String Methods
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

String to uppercase
my_string.upper()
String to lowercase
my_string.lower()
Count String elements
my_string.count('w')
my_string.replace('e', 'i') Replace String elements
my_string.strip()
Strip whitespace from ends

Numpy Array Functions


>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

my_array.shape
np.append(other_array)
np.insert(my_array, 1, 5)
np.delete(my_array,[1])
np.mean(my_array)
np.median(my_array)
my_array.corrcoef()
np.std(my_array)

DataCamp

Get the dimensions of the array


Append items to an array
Insert items in an array
Delete items in an array
Mean of the array
Median of the array
Correlation coefficient
Standard deviation

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