Python Data Analysis
Cookbook
Over 140 practical recipes to help you make sense of your
data with ease and build production-ready data apps
Ivan Idris
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Python Data Analysis Cookbook
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About the Author
Ivan Idris was born in Bulgaria to Indonesian parents. He moved to the Netherlands and
graduated in experimental physics. His graduation thesis had a strong emphasis on applied
computer science. After graduating, he worked for several companies as a software developer,
data warehouse developer, and QA analyst.
His professional interests are business intelligence, big data, and cloud computing. He enjoys
writing clean, testable code and interesting technical articles. He is the author of NumPy
Beginner's Guide, NumPy Cookbook, Learning NumPy, and Python Data Analysis, all by
Packt Publishing.
