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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

Summary


In this chapter, we introduce basic graphs, plots, and charts used to visualize data. The process of visualization enables an analyst to graphically examine the data under review. This is more intuitive, and often facilitates the rapid identification of anomalies in the data that can be hard to extract from the raw data.

Several visual representations were examined, including line charts, a variety of bar charts, pie charts, scatterplots, histograms, donut charts, and bubble charts. Each of these graphical depictions of data provides a different perspective of the data being analyzed. The most appropriate technique depends on the nature of the data being used. While we have not covered all of the possible graphical techniques, this sample provides a good overview of what is available.

We were also concerned with how Java is used to draw these graphics. Many of the examples used JavaFX. This is a readily available tool that is bundled with Java SE. However, there are several other libraries...