书名:Python数据分析(影印版)
国内出版社:东南大学出版社
出版时间:2013年06月
页数:472
书号:978-7-5641-4204-9
原版书书名:Python for Data Analysis
原版书出版商:O'Reilly Media
Wes McKinney
Wes McKinney是纽约的一名数据分析高手和企业主。在2007年获得MIT的数学学士学位之后,他到位于康涅狄格州格林威治市(Greenwich,CT)的AQR Capital Management公司从事定量金融方面的工作。由于不满那些数据分析工具的各种不好用,他开始学习Python,并于2008年开始构建pandas项目。他目前是Python科学计算社区的活跃分子,而且积极倡导在数据分析、金融以及统计应用中使用Python。
The animal on the cover of Python for Data Analysis is a golden-tailed, or pen-tailed, tree shrew (Ptilocercus lowii). The golden-tailed tree shrew is the only one of its species in the genus Ptilocercus and family Ptilocercidae; all the other tree shrews are of the family Tupaiidae. Tree shrews are identified by their long tails and soft red-brown fur. As nicknamed, the golden-tailed tree shrew has a tail that resembles the feather on a quill pen. Tree shrews are omnivores, feeding primarily on insects, fruit, seeds, and small vertebrates.Found predominantly in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, these wild mammals are known for their chronic consumption of alcohol. Malaysian tree shrews were found to spend several hours consuming the naturally fermented nectar of the bertam palm, equalling about 10 to 12 glasses of wine with 3.8% alcohol content. Despite this, no golden-tailed tree shrew has ever been intoxicated, thanks largely to their impressive ethanol breakdown, which includes metabolizing the alcohol in a way not used by humans. Also more impressive than any of their mammal counterparts, including humans? Brain to body mass ratio.
Despite these mammals’ name, the golden-tailed shrew is not a true shrew, instead more closely related to primates. Because of their close relation, tree shrews have become an alternative to primates in medical experimentation for myopia, psychosocial stress, and hepatitis.