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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

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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 discussed why data exploration is important and how can we perform exploratory analysis on datasets.

These are the various important techniques and concepts that we discussed:

  • Sampling is a technique to randomly select unrelated data from the given dataset so that we can generalize the results that we generate on this selected data over the complete dataset.

  • Weight vectors are important when the dataset that we have or gather doesn't represent the actual data.

  • Why it is necessary to know the column types and how summary functions can be really helpful in getting the gist of the dataset.

  • Mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, and scalar statistics, and how they are implemented in Julia.

  • Measuring the variations in a dataset is really important and z-scores and entropy can be really useful.

  • After some basic data cleaning and some understanding, visualization can be very beneficial and insightful.