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NumPy – Basics & Examples

This is to get started with NumPy and try few concrete examples. NumPy (Numerical Python) are packages for numerical computation designed for efficient work on large data sets.

Entire Jupiter notebook can be downloaded or forked from my GitHub to play around: https://github.com/sandeep-mewara/python-examples

Reference: https://numpy.org/learn/

NumPy basics includes:

# matrix in python is list of a list

# arrays are compatible for broadcasting when the trailing dimensions match or either of them is of length 1

# image when read as numbers, the values are between 0 & 1

Key learning’s …

Examples notebook includes:

# masking helps get all the values back that satisfy the mask

# cumsum() is a handy function for cumulative sum

# there are handy methods for random number generation

Key learning’s …

For learning more about NumPy, look here: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/

Keep learning!