IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook - Info and Reading Options

"IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: A Tour of Interactive Computing with IPython; Introduction; Introducing the IPython notebook; Getting started with exploratory data analysis in IPython; Introducing the multidimensional array in NumPy for fast array computations; Creating an IPython extension with custom magic commands; Mastering IPython''s configuration system; Creating a simple kernel for IPython; Chapter 2: Best Practices in Interactive Computing; Introduction.
• 2- Choosing (or not) between Python 2 and Python 3Efficient interactive computing workflows with IPython; Learning the basics of the distributed version control system Git; A typical workflow with Git branching; Ten tips for conducting reproducible interactive computing experiments; Writing high-quality Python code; Writing unit tests with nose; Debugging your code with IPython; Chapter 3: Mastering the Notebook; Introduction; Teaching programming in the notebook with IPython blocks; Converting an IPython notebook to other formats with nbconvert; Adding custom controls in the notebook toolbar.
• 3- Customizing the CSS style in the notebookUsing interactive widgets
• 4- a piano in the notebook; Creating a custom JavaScript widget in the notebook
• 5- a spreadsheet editor for pandas; Processing webcam images in real time from the notebook; Chapter 4: Profiling and Optimization; Introduction; Evaluating the time taken by a statement in IPython; Profiling your code easily with cProfile and IPython; Profiling your code line-by-line with line_profiler; Profiling the memory usage of your code with memory_profiler; Understanding the internals of NumPy to avoid unnecessary array copying.
• 6- Using stride tricks with NumPyImplementing an efficient rolling average algorithm with stride tricks; Making efficient array selections in NumPy; Processing huge NumPy arrays with memory mapping; Manipulating large arrays with HDF5 and PyTables; Manipulating large heterogeneous tables with HDF5 and PyTables; Chapter 5: High-performance Computing; Introduction; Accelerating pure Python code with Numba and Just-In-Time compilation; Accelerating array computations with Numexpr; Wrapping a C library in Python with ctypes; Accelerating Python code with Cython.
• 7- Optimizing Cython code by writing less Python and more CReleasing the GIL to take advantage of ; multi-core processors with Cython and OpenMP; Writing massively parallel code for NVIDIA graphics cards (GPUs) with CUDA; Writing massively parallel code for heterogeneous platforms with OpenCL; Distributing Python code across multiple cores with IPython; Interacting with asynchronous parallel tasks in IPython; Parallelizing code with MPI in IPython; Trying the Julia language in the notebook; Chapter 6: Advanced Visualization; Introduction; Making nicer matplotlib figures with prettyplotlib.

"IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook" Description:

Read “IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook”:

Read “IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook” by choosing from the options below.