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Peter Maina
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Introduction to python as a data analytics tool

Python is one of the most popular programming language for data analysis, because of its simplicity and flexibility. It also has a lot of frameworks and libraries designed to handle analysis and visualization of data. Its friendly to both beginners and experienced analysts as it offers a wide range of tools that optimizes and streamlines their workflows.

Why python for data analytics?
Easy to learn. Python is very easy for beginners since its syntax is clear and readable. It helps analysts to focus more on problem solving rather than trying to understand complex syntax.

Data manipulation and cleaning. Pandas is a powerful Python library tool for cleaning and manipulating data into useful and insightful data. These tasks include handling missing values, filtering data, creating new features , and merging datasets.

Data visualization. Libraries such as matplotlib and seaborn has a range of plots and charts for data visualization, helping analysts to communicate insights visually. These libraries can generate bar plots, line charts, heatmaps, and many more.

Integration with databases. Python is able to integrate with a wide range of databases such as SQL, Mongo dB, and SQLite which makes it easier to extract, manipulate, and analyze data.

Basic workflow of data analytics with python.
Data collection. Involves extracting data from various sources such as excel, databases, APIs, and scrapping the web.

Data cleaning. Handling missing data, correcting data types, removing duplicates, and filtering irrelevant data.

Exploratory Data Analysis. Analyzing data and generating visualizations to identify patterns and to draw insights.

Visualization and reporting. Visualization tools and libraries are used to create dashboards, plots and reports.

Conclusion.
Python is a powerful and flexible tool for data analytics. Its ecosystem provides everything from basic data manipulation and cleaning to advanced machine learning. Python libraries offer solutions for analyzing and visualizing data while working with both small and large datasets.

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