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NumPy
The goal of this day is to understand practical usage of NumPy. NumPy is a commonly used Python data analysis package. By using NumPy, you can speed up your workflow, and interface with other packages in the Python ecosystem, like scikit-learn, that use NumPy under the hood. NumPy was originally developed in the mid 2000s, and arose from an even older package called Numeric. This longevity means that almost every data analysis or machine learning package for Python leverages NumPy in some way.
Virtual Environment
- Python 3.x
- NumPy
- Jupyter or JupyterLab
Version of NumPy I used to do the exercises: 1.18.1. I suggest to use the most recent one.
Resources
Exercise 0: Environment and libraries
The goal of this exercise is to set up the Python work environment with the required libraries and to learn to launch a jupyter notebook
. Jupyter notebooks are very convenient as they allow to write and test code within seconds. However, it really easy to implement instable and not reproducible code using notebooks. Keep the notebook and the underlying code clean. Notebook can be used for most of the exercises of the piscine as the goal is to experiment a lot. But no worries, you'll be asked to build a more robust structure for all the projects.
Note: For each quest, your first exercise will be to set up the virtual environment with the required libraries.
I suggest utilizing:
- The latest stable version of Python for your work. However, in this exercise, you'll install and use a specific Python version for educational purposes.
- Choose a virtual environment that aligns with your familiarity. Common choices among Data Science practitioners are
virtualenv
andconda
. - Install the most recent versions of the required libraries to ensure compatibility and access to the latest features
-
Begin by creating a virtual environment named
ex00
that utilizes Python version3.8
. Install the required librariesnumpy
andjupyter
. Save the installed packages to a file namedrequirements.txt
, located in the current directory. -
Launch a
jupyter
notebook orJupyterLab
on port8891
. Create a new notebook namedNotebook_ex00
. -
In the first cell of the notebook, set
H1 TITLE
as a heading level 1 andH2 TITLE
as a heading level 2. -
Execute
print("Buy the dip ?")
in the second cell to display the message.
Resources:
- python
- Conda Documentation
- jupyter
- numpy
- Jupyter Notebook Shortcuts
- Why You Should be Using Jupyter Notebooks
Exercise 1: Your first NumPy array
The objective of this exercise is to familiarize yourself with incorporating various Python data types into NumPy arrays. NumPy arrays play a vital role in both NumPy and Pandas, offering flexibility and optimized functionalities.
- Create a NumPy array that contains: an
integer
, afloat
, astring
, adictionary
, alist
, atuple
, aset
and aboolean
. Add the following code at the end of your python file or in a cell of the jupyter notebook:
for i in your_np_array:
print(type(i))
Exercise 2: Zeros
The goal of this exercise is to learn to create a NumPy array with 0s.
- Create a NumPy array of dimension 300 with zeros without filling it manually
- Reshape it to (3,100)
Exercise 3: Slicing
The goal of this exercise is to learn NumPy indexing/slicing. It allows to access values of the NumPy array efficiently and without a for loop.
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Create a NumPy array of dimension 1 that contains all integers from 1 to 100 ordered.
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Without using a for loop and using the array created in Q1, create an array that contain all odd integers. The expected output is:
[ 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47
49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95
97 99]
- Without using a for loop and using the array created in Q1, create an array that contain all even integers reversed. The expected output is:
[100 98 96 94 92 90 88 86 84 82 80 78 76 74 72 70 68 66
64 62 60 58 56 54 52 50 48 46 44 42 40 38 36 34 32 30
28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2]
- Using array of Q1, set the value of every 3 elements of the list (starting with the second) to 0. The expected output is:
[ 1 0 3 4 0 6 7 0 9 10 0 12 13 0 15 16 0 18
19 0 21 22 0 24 25 0 27 28 0 30 31 0 33 34 0 36
37 0 39 40 0 42 43 0 45 46 0 48 49 0 51 52 0 54
55 0 57 58 0 60 61 0 63 64 0 66 67 0 69 70 0 72
73 0 75 76 0 78 79 0 81 82 0 84 85 0 87 88 0 90
91 0 93 94 0 96 97 0 99 100]
Exercise 4: Random
The goal of this exercise is to learn to generate random data. In Data Science it is extremely useful to generate random data for many reasons: Lack of real data, create a random benchmark, use varied data sets. NumPy proposes a lot of options to generate random data. In statistics, assumptions are made on the distribution the data is from. All data distribution that can be generated randomly are described in the documentation. In this exercise we will focus on two distributions:
-
Uniform: For example, if your goal is to generate a random number from 1 to 100 and that the probability that all the numbers is equal you'll need the uniform distribution. NumPy provides
randint
anduniform
to generate uniform distribution -
Normal: The normal distribution is the most important probability distribution in statistics because it fits many natural phenomena.For example, if you need to generate a data sample that represents Heights of 14 Year Old Girls it can be done using the normal distribution. In that case, we need two parameters: the mean (1m51) and the standard deviation (0.0741m). NumPy provides
randn
to generate normal distribution (among other)
- Set the seed to 888
- Generate a one-dimensional array of size 100 with a normal distribution
- Generate a two-dimensional array of size 8,8 with random integers from 1 to 10 - both included (same probability for each integer)
- Generate a three-dimensional of size 4,2,5 array with random integers from 1 to 17 - both included (same probability for each integer)
Exercise 5: Split, concatenate, reshape arrays
The goal of this exercise is to learn to concatenate and reshape arrays.
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Generate an array with integers from 1 to 50:
array([1,...,50])
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Generate an array with integers from 51 to 100:
array([51,...,100])
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Using
np.concatenate
, concatenate the two arrays into:array([1,...,100])
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Reshape the previous array into:
[[ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] [ 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20] ... [ 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90] [ 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100]]
Print what you've created in the previous steps.
Exercise 6: Broadcasting and Slicing
The goal of this exercise is to learn to access values of n-dimensional arrays efficiently.
Using a for loop is not allowed in this exercise.
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Generate a 2-dimensional array of size 9x9, with all elements initialized to 1 and of type
int8
. -
Using slicing, create the following array:
array([[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1], [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1], [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1], [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1], [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1], [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]], dtype=np.int8)
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Using broadcasting create an output matrix based on the following two arrays:
array_1 = np.array([1,2,3,4,5], dytpe=np.int8) array_2 = np.array([1,2,3], dytpe=np.int8)
Expected output:
[[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]]
[[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]
[1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1]
[1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1]
[1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1]
[1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1]
[1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1]]
[[ 1 2 3]
[ 2 4 6]
[ 3 6 9]
[ 4 8 12]
[ 5 10 15]]
Resources
Computation on Arrays: Broadcasting
Exercise 7: NaN
The goal of this exercise is to handle missing data in NumPy and manipulate arrays effectively.
Let's consider a 2-dimensional array containing grades from the last two exams. Some students missed the first exam, so their grades are replaced with NaN
.
To simulate this scenario, we'll create a mock dataset using NumPy. Here's a snippet of code to generate this dataset:
import numpy as np
generator = np.random.default_rng(123)
grades = np.round(generator.uniform(low = 0.0, high = 10.0, size = (10, 2)))
grades[[1,2,5,7], [0,0,0,0]] = np.nan
print(grades)
This code returns:
[[ 7. 1.]
[nan 2.]
[nan 8.]
[ 9. 3.]
[ 8. 9.]
[nan 2.]
[ 8. 2.]
[nan 6.]
[ 9. 2.]
[ 8. 5.]]
- Using
np.where
, create a third column that takes the grade of the first exam if available; otherwise, it uses the grade from the second exam. Add this column as the third column of the array.
Using a for loop or if/else statement is not allowed in this exercise.
Expected output:
[[ 7. 1. 7.]
[nan 2. 2.]
[nan 8. 8.]
[ 9. 3. 9.]
[ 8. 9. 8.]
[nan 2. 2.]
[ 8. 2. 8.]
[nan 6. 6.]
[ 9. 2. 9.]
[ 8. 5. 8.]]
Exercise 8: Wine
The goal of this exercise is to perform fundamental data analysis on real data using NumPy.
The dataset chosen for this task was the red wine dataset. You can find more info HERE
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Load the data using
genfromtxt
, specifying the delimiter as ';', and optimize the numpy array size by reducing the data types. Usenp.float32
and verify that the resulting numpy array weighs 76800 bytes. -
Display the 2nd, 7th, and 12th rows as a two-dimensional array. Exclude
np.nan
values if present. -
Determine if there is any wine in the dataset with an alcohol percentage greater than 20%. Return True or False.
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Calculate the average alcohol percentage across all wines in the dataset. Exclude
np.nan
values if present. -
Compute various statistical measures (minimum, maximum, 25th percentile, 50th percentile, 75th percentile and the mean for the pH values).
Note: Using
percentile
ormedian
may give different results depending on the duplicate values in the column. If you do not have my results please usepercentile
.
- Find the average quality score of wines with the 20% least sulphate content.
Tip: The first step is to get the percentile 20% of the column sulphates
, then create a boolean array that contains True
of the value is smaller than the percentile 20%, then select this rows with the column quality and compute the mean
.
- Compute the mean of all variables for wines with the best quality. Also, do the same for wines with the worst quality.
Tip: This can be done in three steps: Get the max, create a boolean mask that indicates rows with max quality, use this mask to subset the rows with the best quality and compute the mean on the axis 0.
Exercise 9: Football tournament
This exercise focuses on utilizing permutations and complex computations.
A Football tournament is underway in your city involving 10 teams. The tournament director seeks an engaging first round and has delegated the pairing decisions to you.
Leveraging your expertise as a former data scientist, you've developed a predictive model based on teams' current season performance. This model forecasts the score difference between any two teams.
The model generates a 2-dimensional array stored in model_forecasts.txt. Each (i, j) entry in this matrix signifies the predicted score difference between Team i and Team j.
The objective is to determine the pairs that will result in the most interesting matches.
If a team wins 7-1 the match is obviously less exciting than a match where the winner wins 2-1. The criteria that corresponds to the pairs that will give the most interesting matches is the pairs that minimize the sum of squared differences
The expected output is:
[[m1_t1 m2_t1 m3_t1 m4_t1 m5_t1]
[m1_t2 m2_t2 m3_t2 m4_t2 m5_t2]]
- m1_t1 stands for match1_team1
- m1_t1 plays against m1_t2 ...
Usage of for loop is not allowed, you may need to use the library itertools to create permutations.