Preliminaries
I just read through the first chapter… and i’m impressed. I feel prepared to continou read this book. I have no fear of something will wrong, because he thoght me so well, everyting i need, to go through this book.
I use windows, and maybe if u use mac and linux, it will be no problem, because he got you too. Installing miniconda, set up the environment,
Chapter 2. Python Language Basics, IPython, and Jupyter Notebooks
I’m somewhat familiar with python, and i find this chapter insightful. I found something new, and how python work. I recomend you to at least skim this chapter, although you already familiar with python. Just as a reminder, especially if you don’t touch python for a while. If you new, you HAVE to read this.
Although i’m a somwhat familiar with python, i dont find this chapter too boring, and not too “trivial”, and its highlight the important things to know. Thogh it can be exhausting to read all this in one sitting.
Chapter 3. Built-In Data Structures, Functions, and Files
I find the dictionary part a bit overwhelmed. I just skim it through i hope i will figure it out later.
And there is generators. Something new for me.
Chapter 4. NumPy Basics: Arrays and Vectorized Computation
This chapter feels like long list numpy and pandas method, with some explanation. If you don’t know what you are looking for, or just read it, it can be very boring. Maybe try some of the code.
But it a good reference tho, maybe i wil look here later when i try to do something in the later chapter. Or just read the apendix, and it have more than this chapter. Maybe, i didn’t read the apendix yet.
Or you can view it as a preview, what are the method that will be used in this book. So it’s okay if you dont understand it all, let alone memorize them all. It is very tempting to just skip all this, and go straight to the visualization, with nice graph.
Chapter 5. Getting Started with pandas
finally. the main topic
Its listing method. It starts to feel to many overhead. Or just my retention span is cooked.
When you learn something, i often feels always on back and forth between “i want to know everything i need to know first” and “lets just do something”. And it always like, uhh this is boring, lets just create something, and sh*t, whats this, or how the f*ck to do this.
Up to the next
Chapter 6. Data Loading, Storage, and File Formats
When i hadtype some csv myself, i got an error. Turns out, leading space or between value what youn intended in csv can cause some prolem. So be aware of that
Its another list of methods that u will use for data loading, storage, and file formats.
I’m done with this for now. It feels like curated method. maybe i will come to this book back later.
