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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
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Preface

What is TimeSeries?


A time series is an arrangement of insights, typically gathered at standard intervals. Time series information normally happens in numerous applications:

  • Economics: For example, monthly data for unemployment, hospital admissions, and so on

  • Finance: For example, daily exchange rate, a share price, and so on

  • Environmental: For example, daily rainfall, air quality readings, and so on

  • Medicine: For example, ECG brain wave activity every 2 to 8 seconds

The techniques for time series investigation predate those for general stochastic procedures and Markov chains. The goals of time series analysis are to portray and outline time series data, fit low-dimensional models, and to make desirable forecasts.

Trends, seasonality, cycles, and residuals

One straightforward strategy for depicting a series is that of classical disintegration. The idea is that the arrangement can be segmented into four components:

  • Trend (Tt): Long-term movements in the mean

  • Seasonal effects (It): Cyclical fluctuations...