Fast Python for Data Science: High Performance Techniques for Large Datasets

“If you want to go beyond scripting in Python, you need this book.” Brian S. Cole.

“If you need to improve the performance of your Python code, you need to read this book!” Lorenzo DeLeon

“I really like how the book walks you through interesting projects and code. I think that does a great job of demonstrating the concepts and giving you something to play with.” Dana Robinson

“Explains the essential concepts required for using high performance Python.” Biswanath Chowdhury

“A must have to speed up your Python code.” Abhilash Babu Jyotheendra Babu

Fast Python for Data Science is a hands-on guide to writing Python code that can process more data, faster, and with less resources. It takes a holistic approach to Python performance, showing you how your code, libraries, and computing architecture interact and can be optimized together.

Written for experienced practitioners, this book dives right into practical solutions for improving computation and storage efficiency. You’ll experiment with fun and interesting examples such as rewriting games in lower-level Cython and implementing a MapReduce framework from scratch. Finally, you’ll go deep into Python GPU computing and learn how modern hardware has rehabilitated some former antipatterns and made counterintuitive ideas the most efficient way of working.