Nbote:
I must follow U wherever U go

lahp:



pls do. I promise to hold u by the hand and take u on a tour of this beautiful jungle called data science...
there shall be pools of knowledge so clear like crystal
feel free and secured to take a drink and feel refreshed


There are a whole lot of things data can be done with

u can mention friends too

Nbote:

But I don't have any programming knowledge.. Will it b a problem

EngrBouss:
Will this be a WhatsApp group because I am interested

lahp:


through this tutorial u shall learn syntaxes of the python language

but I might recommend you taking a tutorial on the python language

I can Lead u through the fundamentals of python
or better yet u can get a tutorial in their website

Nbote:


Can U recommend any gud site I can get python tutorials while also following urs up

lahp:




https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python

Nbote:


God bless U and increase ur knowledge baba..

greatface:
Am with you on this lahp, just that the nairaland bread of tutorials always keep me doubting.

lahp:

doubting on what?

greatface:
Most of them were half completed.

lahp:


I hope i don't die yet but if i get to live for 112 years i plan to be rest assured this tutorial will be completed

lahp:
There are several ways to create arrays.
For example, you can create an array from a regular
Python list or tuple using the array function. The type of
the resulting array is deduced from the type of the
elements in the sequences.
A frequent error consists in calling array with multiple
numeric arguments, rather than providing a single list of
numbers as an argument.
array transforms sequences of sequences into two-
dimensional arrays, sequences of sequences of sequences
into three-dimensional arrays, and so on.
The type of the array can also be explicitly specified at
creation time:
Often, the elements of an array are originally unknown, but
its size is known. Hence, NumPy offers several functions
to create arrays with initial placeholder content. These
minimize the necessity of growing arrays, an expensive
operation.
The function zeros creates an array full of zeros, the
function ones creates an array full of ones, and the
function empty creates an array whose initial content is
random and depends on the state of the memory. By
default, the dtype of the created array is float64 .
To create sequences of numbers, NumPy provides a
function analogous to range that returns arrays instead of
lists.
When arange is used with floating point arguments, it is
generally not possible to predict the number of elements
obtained, due to the finite floating point precision. For this
reason, it is usually better to use the function linspace
that receives as an argument the number of elements that
we want, instead of the step:
See also:
array , zeros, zeros_like , ones , ones_like , empty ,
empty_like , arange, linspace, numpy.random.rand ,
numpy.random.randn , fromfunction, fromfile
Printing Arrays
When you print an array, NumPy displays it in a similar
way to nested lists, but with the following layout:
the last axis is printed from left to right,
the second-to-last is printed from top to bottom,
the rest are also printed from top to bottom, with each
slice separated from the next by an empty line.
One-dimensional arrays are then printed as rows,
bidimensionals as matrices and tridimensionals as lists of
matrices.
See below to get more details on reshape .
If an array is too large to be printed, NumPy automatically
skips the central part of the array and only prints the
corners:
To disable this behaviour and force NumPy to print the
entire array, you can change the printing options using
set_printoptions .
Basic Operations
Arithmetic operators on arrays apply elementwise . A new
array is created and filled with the result.
Unlike in many matrix languages, the product operator *
operates elementwise in NumPy arrays. The matrix
product can be performed using the @ operator (in python
>=3.5) or the dot function or method:
Some operations, such as += and *=, act in place to
modify an existing array rather than create a new one.
When operating with arrays of different types, the type of
the resulting array corresponds to the more general or
precise one (a behavior known as upcasting).
Many unary operations, such as computing the sum of all
the elements in the array, are implemented as methods of
the ndarray class.
By default, these operations apply to the array as though it
were a list of numbers, regardless of its shape. However,
by specifying the axis parameter you can apply an
operation along the specified axis of an array:
Universal Functions
NumPy provides familiar mathematical functions such as
sin, cos, and exp. In NumPy, these are called “universal
functions”( ufunc ). Within NumPy, these functions operate
elementwise on an array, producing an array as output.
See also:
all , any , apply_along_axis , argmax, argmin , argsort,
average , bincount , ceil, clip , conj , corrcoef , cov , cross,
cumprod , cumsum , diff, dot, floor, inner , inv, lexsort, max ,
maximum , mean , median , min, minimum, nonzero , outer ,
prod, re , round, sort , std, sum , trace, transpose , var, vdot ,
vectorize , where
Indexing, Slicing and Iterating
One-dimensional arrays can be indexed, sliced and
iterated over, much like lists and other Python sequences.
Multidimensional arrays can have one index per axis.
These indices are given in a tuple separated by commas:
When fewer indices are provided than the number of axes,
the missing indices are considered complete slices :
The expression within brackets in b[i] is treated as an i
followed by as many instances of : as needed to
represent the remaining axes. NumPy also allows you to
write this using dots as b[i,...] .
The dots ( ... ) represent as many colons as needed to
produce a complete indexing tuple. For example, if x is
an array with 5 axes, then
x[1,2,...] is equivalent to x[1,2,:,:,:] ,
x[...,3] to x[:,:,:,:,3] and
x[4,...,5,:] to x[4,:,:,5,:] .
Iterating over multidimensional arrays is done with respect
to the first axis:
However, if one wants to perform an operation on each
element in the array, one can use the flat attribute which
is an iterator over all the elements of the array:
See also:
Indexing , Indexing (reference), newaxis, ndenumerate ,
indices
Shape Manipulation
Changing the shape of an array
An array has a shape given by the number of elements
along each axis:
The shape of an array can be changed with various
commands. Note that the following three commands all
return a modified array, but do not change the original
array:
The order of the elements in the array resulting from ravel
() is normally “C-style”, that is, the rightmost index
“changes the fastest”, so the element after a[0,0] is a
[0,1]. If the array is reshaped to some other shape, again
the array is treated as “C-style”. NumPy normally creates
arrays stored in this order, so ravel() will usually not need
to copy its argument, but if the array was made by taking
slices of another array or created with unusual options, it
may need to be copied. The functions ravel() and reshape
() can also be instructed, using an optional argument, to
use FORTRAN-style arrays, in which the leftmost index
changes the fastest.
The reshape function returns its argument with a modified
shape, whereas the ndarray.resize method modifies the
array itself:
If a dimension is given as -1 in a reshaping operation, the
other dimensions are automatically calculated:
See also:
ndarray.shape , reshape , resize , ravel
Stacking together different arrays
Several arrays can be stacked together along different
axes:
The function column_stack stacks 1D arrays as columns
into a 2D array. It is equivalent to hstack only for 2D
arrays:
On the other hand, the function row_stack is equivalent to
vstack for any input arrays. In general, for arrays of with
more than two dimensions, hstack stacks along their
second axes, vstack stacks along their first axes, and
concatenate allows for an optional arguments giving the
number of the axis along which the concatenation should
happen.
Note
In complex cases, r_ and c_ are useful for creating arrays
by stacking numbers along one axis. They allow the use
of range literals (“:”)
When used with arrays as arguments, r_ and c_ are similar
to vstack and hstack in their default behavior, but allow
for an optional argument giving the number of the axis
along which to concatenate.
See also:
hstack , vstack, column_stack, concatenate, c_ , r_
Splitting one array into several smaller ones
Using hsplit, you can split an array along its horizontal
axis, either by specifying the number of equally shaped
arrays to return, or by specifying the columns after which
the division should occur:
vsplit splits along the vertical axis, and array_split allows
one to specify along which axis to split.
Copies and Views
When operating and manipulating arrays, their data is
sometimes copied into a new array and sometimes not.
This is often a source of confusion for beginners. There
are three cases:
No Copy at All
Simple assignments make no copy of array objects or of
their data.
Python passes mutable objects as references, so function
calls make no copy.
View or Shallow Copy
Different array objects can share the same data. The view
method creates a new array object that looks at the same
data.
Slicing an array returns a view of it:
Deep Copy
The copy method makes a complete copy of the array
and its data.
Functions and Methods Overview
Here is a list of some useful NumPy functions and
methods names ordered in categories. See Routines for
the full list.
Array Creation
arange, array, copy , empty , empty_like , eye, fromfile ,
fromfunction , identity, linspace, logspace , mgrid , ogrid ,
ones , ones_like , r , zeros, zeros_like
Conversions
ndarray.astype , atleast_1d , atleast_2d , atleast_3d , mat
Manipulations
array_split , column_stack, concatenate , diagonal , dsplit,
dstack , hsplit, hstack , ndarray.item , newaxis , ravel , repeat
, reshape , resize , squeeze, swapaxes , take , transpose,
vsplit , vstack
Questions
all , any , nonzero , where
Ordering
argmax, argmin , argsort , max , min, ptp , searchsorted , sort
Operations
choose , compress , cumprod , cumsum , inner , ndarray.fill ,
imag , prod, put , putmask , real, sum
Basic Statistics
cov , mean , std, var
Basic Linear Algebra
cross, dot , outer , linalg.svd , vdot
Less Basic
Broadcasting rules
Broadcasting allows universal functions to deal in a
meaningful way with inputs that do not have exactly the
same shape.
The first rule of broadcasting is that if all input arrays do
not have the same number of dimensions, a “1” will be
repeatedly prepended to the shapes of the smaller arrays
until all the arrays have the same number of dimensions.
The second rule of broadcasting ensures that arrays with a
size of 1 along a particular dimension act as if they had
the size of the array with the largest shape along that
dimension. The value of the array element is assumed to
be the same along that dimension for the “broadcast”
array.
After application of the broadcasting rules, the sizes of all
arrays must match. More details can be found in
Broadcasting.
Fancy indexing and index tricks
NumPy offers more indexing facilities than regular Python
sequences. In addition to indexing by integers and slices,
as we saw before, arrays can be indexed by arrays of
integers and arrays of booleans.
Indexing with Arrays of Indices
When the indexed array a is multidimensional, a single
array of indices refers to the first dimension of a. The
following example shows this behavior by converting an
image of labels into a color image using a palette.
We can also give indexes for more than one dimension.
The arrays of indices for each dimension must have the
same shape.
Naturally, we can put i and j in a sequence (say a list)
and then do the indexing with the list.
However, we can not do this by putting i and j into an
array, because this array will be interpreted as indexing the
first dimension of a.
Another common use of indexing with arrays is the search
of the maximum value of time-dependent series:
You can also use indexing with arrays as a target to assign
to:
However, when the list of indices contains repetitions, the
assignment is done several times, leaving behind the last
value:
This is reasonable enough, but watch out if you want to
use Python’s += construct, as it may not do what you
expect:
Even though 0 occurs twice in the list of indices, the 0th
element is only incremented once. This is because Python
requires “a+=1” to be equivalent to “a = a + 1”.
Indexing with Boolean Arrays
When we index arrays with arrays of (integer) indices we
are providing the list of indices to pick. With boolean
indices the approach is different; we explicitly choose
which items in the array we want and which ones we don’t.
The most natural way one can think of for boolean
indexing is to use boolean arrays that have the same
shape as the original array:
This property can be very useful in assignments:
You can look at the following example to see how to use
boolean indexing to generate an image of the Mandelbrot
set :
The second way of indexing with booleans is more similar
to integer indexing; for each dimension of the array we
give a 1D boolean array selecting the slices we want:
Note that the length of the 1D boolean array must coincide
with the length of the dimension (or axis) you want to
slice. In the previous example, b1 has length 3 (the
number of rows in a), and b2 (of length 4) is suitable to
index the 2nd axis (columns) of a.
The ix_() function
The ix_ function can be used to combine different vectors
so as to obtain the result for each n-uplet. For example, if
you want to compute all the a+b*c for all the triplets taken
from each of the vectors a, b and c:
You could also implement the reduce as follows:
and then use it as:
The advantage of this version of reduce compared to the
normal ufunc.reduce is that it makes use of the
Broadcasting Rules in order to avoid creating an argument
array the size of the output times the number of vectors.
Indexing with strings
See Structured arrays .
Linear Algebra
Work in progress. Basic linear algebra to be included here.
Simple Array Operations
See linalg.py in numpy folder for more.
Tricks and Tips
Here we give a list of short and useful tips.
“Automatic” Reshaping
To change the dimensions of an array, you can omit one
of the sizes which will then be deduced automatically:
Vector Stacking
How do we construct a 2D array from a list of equally-
sized row vectors? In MATLAB this is quite easy: if x and
y are two vectors of the same length you only need do
m=[x;y] . In NumPy this works via the functions
column_stack , dstack , hstack and vstack , depending
on the dimension in which the stacking is to be done. For
example:
The logic behind those functions in more than two
dimensions can be strange.
See also:
NumPy for Matlab users
Histograms
The NumPy histogram function applied to an array
returns a pair of vectors: the histogram of the array and
the vector of bins. Beware: matplotlib also has a
function to build histograms (called hist, as in Matlab)
that differs from the one in NumPy. The main difference is
that pylab.hist plots the histogram automatically, while
numpy.histogram only generates the data.
Further reading
The Python tutorial
NumPy Reference
SciPy Tutorial
SciPy Lecture Notes
A matlab, R, IDL, NumPy/SciPy dictionary
Table Of Contents
Quickstart tutorial
Prerequisites
The Basics
An example
Array Creation
Printing Arrays
Basic Operations
Universal Functions
Indexing, Slicing and Iterating
Shape Manipulation
Changing the shape of an array
Stacking together different arrays
Splitting one array into several smaller ones
Copies and Views
No Copy at All
View or Shallow Copy
Deep Copy
Functions and Methods Overview
Less Basic
Broadcasting rules
Fancy indexing and index tricks
Indexing with Arrays of Indices
Indexing with Boolean Arrays
The ix_() function
Indexing with strings
Linear Algebra
Simple Array Operations
Tricks and Tips
“Automatic” Reshaping
Vector Stacking
Histograms
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[[ 1. , 0., 0.],
[ 0. , 1., 2.]]
>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np .arange( 15 ).reshape( 3, 5)
>>> a
array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[ 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
[10, 11, 12, 13, 14]])
>>> a .shape
(3, 5)
>>> a .ndim
2
>>> a .dtype .name
'int64'
>>> a .itemsize
8
>>> a .size
15
>>> type (a)
<type 'numpy.ndarray'>
>>> b = np .array([ 6, 7, 8 ])
>>> b
array([6, 7, 8])
>>> type (b)
<type 'numpy.ndarray'>
>>>
>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = np .array([ 2, 3,4])
>>> a
array([2, 3, 4])
>>> a .dtype
dtype('int64')
>>> b = np .array([ 1.2 , 3.5 , 5.1 ])
>>> b .dtype
dtype('float64')
>>>
>>> a = np .array( 1,2 ,3,4) # WRONG
>>> a = np .array([ 1, 2,3,4 ]) # RIGHT
>>>
>>> b = np .array([( 1.5 ,2, 3), ( 4,5,6 )])
>>> b
array([[ 1.5, 2. , 3. ],
[ 4. , 5. , 6. ]])
>>>
>>> c = np .array( [ [ 1,2], [ 3, 4] ],
dtype =complex )
>>> c
array([[ 1.+0.j, 2.+0.j],
[ 3.+0.j, 4.+0.j]])
>>>
>>> np .zeros( ( 3,4) )
array([[ 0., 0., 0., 0.],
[ 0., 0., 0., 0.],
[ 0., 0., 0., 0.]])
>>> np .ones( ( 2 ,3,4),
dtype =np.int16 ) # dtype can
also be specified
array([[[ 1, 1, 1, 1],
[ 1, 1, 1, 1],
[ 1, 1, 1, 1]],
[[ 1, 1, 1, 1],
[ 1, 1, 1, 1],
[ 1, 1, 1, 1]]], dtype=int16)
>>> np .empty
( (2, 3) ) #
uninitialized, output may vary
array([[ 3.73603959e-262,
6.02658058e-154, 6.55490914e-260],
[ 5.30498948e-313,
3.14673309e-307, 1.00000000e+000]])
>>>
>>> np .arange( 10, 30 , 5 )
array([10, 15, 20, 25])
>>> np .arange( 0, 2, 0.3 ) #
it accepts float arguments
array([ 0. , 0.3, 0.6, 0.9, 1.2, 1.5,
1.8])
>>>
>>> from numpy import pi
>>> np .linspace( 0 , 2, 9 ) #
9 numbers from 0 to 2
array([ 0. , 0.25, 0.5 , 0.75, 1. ,
1.25, 1.5 , 1.75, 2. ])
>>> x = np .linspace( 0, 2*pi, 100 ) #
useful to evaluate function at lots of points
>>> f = np .sin(x)