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From Social Science to Data Science
Key Data Collection and Analysis Skills in Python
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- 400 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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From Social Science to Data Science is a fundamental guide to scaling up and advancing your programming skills in Python. From beginning to end, this book will enable you to understand merging, accessing, cleaning and interpreting data whilst gaining a deeper understanding of computational techniques and seeing the bigger picture. With key features such as tables, figures, step-by-step instruction and explanations giving a wider context, Hogan presents a clear and concise analysis of key data collection and skills in Python.
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Contents
- Illustration List
- Discover This Textbookâs Online Resources!
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Part I Thinking Programmatically
- 1 Introduction: Thinking of life at scale
- 2 The Series: Taming the Distribution
- 3 The DataFrame: Pythonâs tabular format
- Part II Accessing and Converting Data
- 4 File types: Getting data in
- 5 Merging and grouping data
- 6 Accessing data on the World Wide Web using code
- 7 Accessing APIs, INCLUDING TWITTER AND REDDIT
- Part III Interpreting data: Expectations versus observations
- 8 Research questions
- 9 Visualising expectations: Comparing statistical tests and plots
- Part IV Social Data Science in Practice: Four Approaches
- 10 Cleaning data for socially interesting features
- 11 Introducing natural language processing: Cleaning, summarising, and classifying text
- 12 Introducing time-series data: Showing periods and trends
- 13 Introducing network analysis: Structuring relationships
- 14 Introducing geographic information systems: Data across space and place
- 15 Conclusion: there (to data science) and back again (to social science)
- References
- Index