NumPy Learning Roadmap
1. Basics of NumPy
- Introduction to NumPy and installation
- Understanding ndarrays
- Basic array creation (array, arange, linspace, zeros, ones, eye)
- Array attributes (shape, dtype, size, ndim)
2. Array Operations
- Indexing and slicing arrays
- Boolean indexing and fancy indexing
- Reshaping arrays (reshape, ravel, flatten)
- Stacking and splitting arrays (hstack, vstack, split)
3. Mathematical Operations
- Element-wise operations (+, -, *, /)
- Universal functions (ufuncs like sqrt, exp, log)
- Aggregate functions (sum, mean, std, var, min, max)
- Broadcasting concepts
4. Advanced Array Operations
- Copy vs View in arrays
- Sorting and searching (sort, argsort, where)
- Unique values and set operations (unique, intersect1d, union1d)
- Random number generation (random, randint, randn)
5. Linear Algebra with NumPy
- Dot product and matrix multiplication
- Determinant, inverse, and eigenvalues
- Solving linear equations (numpy.linalg)
6. Practical Applications
- Data preprocessing for Machine Learning
- Image representation as arrays
- Time series and signal processing
- Integration with Pandas and Matplotlib
7. Next Steps
- Explore SciPy for advanced math & statistics
- Learn Pandas for data analysis
- Practice with real-world datasets