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Mastering Java for Data Science

By : Alexey Grigorev
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Mastering Java for Data Science

By: Alexey Grigorev

Overview of this book

Java is the most popular programming language, according to the TIOBE index, and it is a typical choice for running production systems in many companies, both in the startup world and among large enterprises. Not surprisingly, it is also a common choice for creating data science applications: it is fast and has a great set of data processing tools, both built-in and external. What is more, choosing Java for data science allows you to easily integrate solutions with existing software, and bring data science into production with less effort. This book will teach you how to create data science applications with Java. First, we will revise the most important things when starting a data science application, and then brush up the basics of Java and machine learning before diving into more advanced topics. We start by going over the existing libraries for data processing and libraries with machine learning algorithms. After that, we cover topics such as classification and regression, dimensionality reduction and clustering, information retrieval and natural language processing, and deep learning and big data. Finally, we finish the book by talking about the ways to deploy the model and evaluate it in production settings.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Extensions to the standard library


The standard Java library is quite powerful, but some things take a long time to write using it or they are simply missing. There are a number of extensions to the standard library, and the most prominent libraries are Apache Commons (a collection of libraries) and Google Guava. They make it easier to use the standard API or extend it, for example, by adding new collections or implementations.

To begin with, we will briefly go over the most relevant parts of these libraries, and later on we will see how they are used in practice.

Apache Commons

Apache Commons is a collection of open source libraries for Java, with the goal of creating reusable Java components. There are quite a few of them, including Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons IO, Apache Commons Collections, and many others.

Commons Lang

Apache Commons Lang is a set of utility classes that extend the java.util package and they make the life of a Java developer a lot easier by providing many little methods...