NumPy a Boon Package!!!

NumPy (Numerical Python) is an open source Python library ,a fundamental package for scientific computing in Python. Some of the features we’ll find in NumPy :

1. It is a multidimensional array object, providing fast array-oriented arithmetic operations and efficiently broadcast operation across dimensions.
2. Tools for reading/writing array data to disk and working with memory-mapped files, It is designed for efficiency on large array of data.
3. Provide implementations of many functions across linear algebra, statistics.
4. NumPy operations perform complex computations on entire arrays without the need for Pythons for loops.

Comparing performance :

Time consumption creating a numpy array and a list

Consider a NumPy array of one million integers, and the equivalent Python list :

NumPy based algorithms are generally 10 to 100 times faster (or more) than Python list and use significantly less memory.

The NumPy ndarray: A Multidimensional Array object

Creating ndarray :

arr = np.array([[1,1,2,3],[5,8,13,21]])
arr
>> array([[ 1,  1,  2,  3],  
         [ 5,  8, 13, 21]])
arr.shape #shape attribute gives size of array along each dimension
>> (2,4)
arr.ndim   #ndim attribute gives the dimensions of an array
>> 2
This array has 2 axes. First axis has a length of 2 and the second axis has a length of 4.
Note : In NumPy, dimensions are called axes.

NumPy Operations

we can perform arithmetic operations such as add(), subtract(), multiply(), and divide() in a ndarray(n-dimensional array) must be either of the same shape or should confirm to array broadcasting rules. Few operations of NumPy are shown below :

'Adding the two arrays a and b' : >>  np.add(a,b) or a+b
'Subtracting the two arrays a and b' : >>  np.subtract(a,b) or a-b
'Element-wise multiplication of a and b': >> np.multiply(a,b) or a*b
'Matrix wise multiplication of a and b' : >> np.dot(a,b)
'Exponential of all elements in a': >> np.exp(a)
'Sine function of all element in a': >> np.sin(a)
'Squareroot of all element in a' : >> np.sqrt(a)
'Zeros Matrix of size (a x b)' : >>  np.zeros((a, b))

Broadcasting

It describe how numpy treats with the different shapes during arithmetic operation. Smaller array is “broadcast” across the larger array so that they have compatible shapes.

Stats with NumPy

NumPy has quite a few useful statistical functions for finding minimum, maximum, percentile , standard deviation and variance, etc. of the given elements in the array.

np.amin(a) >>Return the minimum of an array or minimum along an axis
np.amax(a) >>Return the maximum of an array or maximum along an axis
np.mean(a) >>Compute the arithmetic mean along the specified axis
np.std(a) >>Compute the standard deviation along the specified axis

Thank you for reading !! 😊

References

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/contents.html

https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/routines.statistics.html