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Java for Data Science

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese
Book Image

Java for Data Science

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese

Overview of this book

para 1: Get the lowdown on Java and explore big data analytics with Java for Data Science. Packed with examples and data science principles, this book uncovers the techniques & Java tools supporting data science and machine learning. Para 2: The stability and power of Java combines with key data science concepts for effective exploration of data. By working with Java APIs and techniques, this data science book allows you to build applications and use analysis techniques centred on machine learning. Para 3: Java for Data Science gives you the understanding you need to examine the techniques and Java tools supporting big data analytics. These Java-based approaches allow you to tackle data mining and statistical analysis in detail. Deep learning and Java data mining are also featured, so you can explore and analyse data effectively, and build intelligent applications using machine learning. para 4: What?s Inside ? Understand data science principles with Java support ? Discover machine learning and deep learning essentials ? Explore data science problems with Java-based solutions
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Java for Data Science
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface

Data acquisition techniques


In this section, we will illustrate how to acquire data from web pages. Web pages contain a potential bounty of useful information. We will demonstrate how to access web pages using several technologies, starting with a low-level approach supported by the HttpUrlConnection class. To find pages, a web crawler application is often used. Once a useful page has been identified, then information needs to be extracted from the page. This is often performed using an HTML parser. Extracting this information is important because it is often buried amid a clutter of HTML tags and JavaScript code.

Using the HttpUrlConnection class

The contents of a web page can be accessed using the HttpUrlConnection class. This is a low-level approach that requires the developer to do a lot of footwork to extract relevant content. However, he or she is able to exercise greater control over how the content is handled. In some situations, this approach may be preferable to using other API libraries...