
- 234 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Scientific Data: A 50 Steps Guide using Python
About this book
This guide offers a comprehensive understanding of experimental data analysis in the natural sciences while ensuring sustainable processing routines from a programmer's perspective. It applies a concise problem-solution-discussion format, supported by Python code snippets, catering to practitioners.
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Yes, you can access Scientific Data: A 50 Steps Guide using Python by Matthias Hofmann,Matthias Josef Hofmann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Physical Sciences & Physics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction and challenge
- Basics
- 1 Getting hands on Python
- 2 Using virtual environments
- 3 Configuring your integrated development environment
- 4 Having a GitHub account
- 5 Creating repositories for dedicated projects
- 6 Synchronizing GitHub desktop
- 7 Knowing basic markdown
- Organization
- 8 Having the overall concept sketch in mind
- 9 Initializing a project with poetry
- 10 Tracking the environment
- 11 Getting your paths right
- 12 Preparing to share
- 13 Writing convenience functions
- 14 Using TOML files for configuration
- 15 Getting used to testing
- Interfacing with common data formats
- 16 Reading Excel files
- 17 Reading text files
- 18 Reading text from Word files
- 19 Reading tables from Word files
- 20 Reading PDF files
- 21 Parsing website contents
- 22 Leveraging regular expressions
- 23 Writing to a database
- 24 Reading from a database
- Planning experiments and/or building on legacy data/information
- 25 Leveraging existing experiments
- 26 Planning experiments
- 27 Using legacy and planned experiments hand in hand
- Collecting experimental data / lab work phase
- 28 Using dedicated modules – use what’s available
- 29 Using dedicated modules – build what’s missing
- Visualization of experimental results
- 30 Simplicity of matplotlib
- 31 Creating a custom matplotlib style
- 32 Convenience of seaborn
- 33 Interactivity of plotly
- 34 Representing multidimensional data
- 35 Representing multidimensional data in a funny way
- Approaching the scientific questions (modeling and recommendation)
- 36 Picking relevant data and information
- 37 Building a model with gplearn
- 38 Playing with the model or “what if”
- 39 Playing with the model or – jupyter notebook
- 40 Playing with the model or – voila
- 41 Playing with the model or – streamlit
- 42 Dealing with too few experiments
- 43 Solving the reverse problem applying multiobjective optimization
- 44 Ensuring the envisioned causality
- Sharing the project
- 45 Building files for distribution
- 46 Pushing to package indices
- 47 Sharing streamlit applications
- Further reading
- 48 Ensuring code styling via black
- 49 Configuring pre-commit
- 50 Building standalone solutions via PyQt
- Concluding remarks
- Subject Index