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Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
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Book Image

Julia for Data Science

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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 data munging?


Munging comes from the term "munge," which was coined by some students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. It is considered one of the most essential parts of the data science process; it involves collecting, aggregating, cleaning, and organizing the data to be consumed by the algorithms designed to make discoveries or to create models. This involves numerous steps, including extracting data from the data source and then parsing or transforming the data into a predefined data structure. Data munging is also referred to as data wrangling.

The data munging process

So what's the data munging process? As mentioned, data can be in any format and the data science process may require data from multiple sources. This data aggregation phase includes scraping it from websites, downloading thousands of .txt or .log files, or gathering the data from RDBMS or NoSQL data stores.

It is very rare to find data in a format that can be used directly by the data science process...