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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

2 (1)
By: Anshul Joshi

Overview of this book

Julia is a fast and high performing language that's perfectly suited to data science with a mature package ecosystem and is now feature complete. It is a good tool for a data science practitioner. There was a famous post at Harvard Business Review that Data Scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. (https://hbr.org/2012/10/data-scientist-the-sexiest-job-of-the-21st-century). This book will help you get familiarised with Julia's rich ecosystem, which is continuously evolving, allowing you to stay on top of your game. This book contains the essentials of data science and gives a high-level overview of advanced statistics and techniques. You will dive in and will work on generating insights by performing inferential statistics, and will reveal hidden patterns and trends using data mining. This has the practical coverage of statistics and machine learning. You will develop knowledge to build statistical models and machine learning systems in Julia with attractive visualizations. You will then delve into the world of Deep learning in Julia and will understand the framework, Mocha.jl with which you can create artificial neural networks and implement deep learning. This book addresses the challenges of real-world data science problems, including data cleaning, data preparation, inferential statistics, statistical modeling, building high-performance machine learning systems and creating effective visualizations using Julia.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Julia for Data Science
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Preface

Probability and information theory


Probability theory is a scientific system for speaking to questionable explanations. It gives a method for evaluating instability and adages for inferring new indeterminate statements.

In applications of AI, we utilize probability theory as follows:

  • The laws of probability define how AI frameworks ought to reason, so algorithms are designed to figure or approximate different expressions inferred on utilizing probability theory

  • Probability and statistics can be utilized to hypothetically investigate the behavior of proposed AI frameworks

While probability theory permits us to put forth indeterminate expressions and reason within the sight of uncertainty, data permits us to measure the degree of uncertainty in a probability distribution.

Why probability?

Machine learning makes substantial utilization of probability theory unlike other branches of computer science that are mainly dependent on the deterministic nature of the computer system:

  • This is on the grounds...