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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev
Book Image

Java: Data Science Made Easy

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev

Overview of this book

Data science is concerned with extracting knowledge and insights from a wide variety of data sources to analyse patterns or predict future behaviour. It draws from a wide array of disciplines including statistics, computer science, mathematics, machine learning, and data mining. In this course, we cover the basic as well as advanced data science concepts and how they are implemented using the popular Java tools and libraries.The course starts with an introduction of data science, followed by the basic data science tasks of data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization. This is followed by a discussion of statistical techniques and more advanced topics including machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. You will examine the major categories of data analysis including text, visual, and audio data, followed by a discussion of resources that support parallel implementation. Throughout this course, the chapters will illustrate a challenging data science problem, and then go on to present a comprehensive, Java-based solution to tackle that problem. You will cover a wide range of topics – from classification and regression, to dimensionality reduction and clustering, deep learning and working with Big Data. Finally, you will see the different ways to deploy the model and evaluate it in production settings. By the end of this course, you will be up and running with various facets of data science using Java, in no time at all. This course contains premium content from two of our recently published popular titles: - Java for Data Science - Mastering Java for Data Science
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
15
Module 2
26
Bibliography

Convolutional networks


CNNs are feed-forward networks modeled after the visual cortex found in animals. The visual cortex is arranged with overlapping neurons, and so in this type of network, the neurons are also arranged in overlapping sections, known as receptive fields. Due to their design model, they function with minimal preprocessing or prior knowledge, and this lack of human intervention makes them especially useful.

This type of network is used frequently in image and video recognition applications. They can be used for classification, clustering, and object recognition. CNNs can also be applied to text analysis by implementing Optical Character Recognition (OCR). CNNs have been a driving force in the machine learning movement in part due to their wide applicability in practical situations.

We are going to demonstrate a CNN using DL4J. The process will closely mirror the process we used in the Building an autoencoder in DL4J section. We will again use the Mnist dataset. This dataset...