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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev
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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev

Overview of this book

Data science is concerned with extracting knowledge and insights from a wide variety of data sources to analyse patterns or predict future behaviour. It draws from a wide array of disciplines including statistics, computer science, mathematics, machine learning, and data mining. In this course, we cover the basic as well as advanced data science concepts and how they are implemented using the popular Java tools and libraries.The course starts with an introduction of data science, followed by the basic data science tasks of data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization. This is followed by a discussion of statistical techniques and more advanced topics including machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. You will examine the major categories of data analysis including text, visual, and audio data, followed by a discussion of resources that support parallel implementation. Throughout this course, the chapters will illustrate a challenging data science problem, and then go on to present a comprehensive, Java-based solution to tackle that problem. You will cover a wide range of topics – from classification and regression, to dimensionality reduction and clustering, deep learning and working with Big Data. Finally, you will see the different ways to deploy the model and evaluate it in production settings. By the end of this course, you will be up and running with various facets of data science using Java, in no time at all. This course contains premium content from two of our recently published popular titles: - Java for Data Science - Mastering Java for Data Science
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
15
Module 2
26
Bibliography

Creating scatter charts


Scatter charts also use the XYChart.Series class in JavaFX. For this example, we will use a set of European data that includes the previous Europeans countries and their population data for the decades 1500 through 2000. This information is stored in a file called EuropeanScatterData.csv. The first part of this file is shown here:

1500 1400000
1600 1600000
1650 1500000
1700 2000000
1750 2250000
1800 3250000
1820 3434000
1830 3750000
1840 4080000
...

We start with the declaration of the JavaFX MainApp class, as shown next. The main method launches the application and the start method creates the user interface:

public class MainApp extends Application { 
    @Override 
    public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception { 
        ... 
    } 

    public static void main(String[] args) { 
        launch(args); 
    } 
} 

Within the start method we set the title, create the axes, and create an instance of the ScatterChart that represents the scatter plot. The NumberAxis...