Book Image

Julia for Data Science

By : Anshul Joshi
2 (1)
Book Image

Julia for Data Science

2 (1)
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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Understanding clustering


Clustering is a technique to divide data into groups (clusters) that are useful and meaningful. The clusters are formed capturing the natural structure of the data, which have meaningful relations with each other. It is also possible that this is only used at the preparation or the summarization stage for the other algorithms or further analysis. Cluster analysis has roles in many fields, such as biology, pattern recognition, information retrieval, and so on.

Clustering has applications in different fields:

  • Information retrieval: To segregate the information into particular clusters is an important step in searching and retrieving information from the numerous sources or a big pool of data. Let's use the example of news aggregating websites. They create clusters of similar types of news making it easier for the user to go through the interesting sections.

    These news types can also have sub-classes creating a hierarchical view. For example, in the sports news section...