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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
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we dived deep into inferential statistics and learned about various concepts and methods in Julia to work with different kinds of datasets. We started with understanding the normal distribution, which is a must when dealing with statistics. In parallel, we started exploring Distributions.jl and various methods provided by Julia. We then moved on to Univariate distributions and understanding why they are so important. We also explored some other distributions, such as Chi, Chi-square, and Cauchy. Later in the chapter, we studied what z-score, p-value, one-tailed, and two-tailed tests are about. After studying the chapter, we should be able to understand the datasets and apply inferential statistics to gain insights as well as using the z-score and p-value to accept or reject our hypothesis.