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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

Summary


There are a few steps for approaching any data science problem, and the data preparation step is one of the first. The standard Java API has a tremendous number of tools that make this task possible, and there are a lot of libraries that make it a lot easier.

In this chapter, we discussed many of them, including extensions to the Java API such as Google Guava; we talked about ways to read the data from different sources such as text, HTML, and databases; and finally we covered the DataFrame, a useful structure for manipulating tabular data.

In the next chapter, we will take a closer look at the data that we extracted in this chapter and perform Exploratory Data Analysis.