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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

By : Eric Rochester
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Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook

By: Eric Rochester

Overview of this book

<p>Data is everywhere and it's increasingly important to be able to gain insights that we can act on. Using Clojure for data analysis and collection, this book will show you how to gain fresh insights and perspectives from your data with an essential collection of practical, structured recipes.<br /><br />"The Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook" presents recipes for every stage of the data analysis process. Whether scraping data off a web page, performing data mining, or creating graphs for the web, this book has something for the task at hand.<br /><br />You'll learn how to acquire data, clean it up, and transform it into useful graphs which can then be analyzed and published to the Internet. Coverage includes advanced topics like processing data concurrently, applying powerful statistical techniques like Bayesian modelling, and even data mining algorithms such as K-means clustering, neural networks, and association rules.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up Mathematica to talk to Clojuratica for Mac OS X and Linux


Before we start interfacing with Mathematica, we have to download the libraries and set up our system to do so. This is a little complicated. We'll need to download the library to handle the interoperability and move a few files around.

Part of what makes this task so difficult is that several things vary, depending on your operating system. Moreover, in order to work with Leiningen, this recipe uses some features of the underlying operating system that aren't available for Windows (symbolic links), so this recipe won't work for the Windows platform. However, Windows users can refer to the next recipe, Setting up Mathematica to talk to Clojuratica for Windows.

Getting ready

We'll need to have Mathematica installed. You can get an evaluation copy from http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/trial/, but if you're looking at this recipe, you probably already have it and are just looking for a way to connect to it from Clojure...