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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Author

Anshul Joshi is a data science professional with more than 2 years of experience primarily in data munging, recommendation systems, predictive modeling, and distributed computing. He is a deep learning and AI enthusiast. Most of the time, he can be caught exploring GitHub or trying anything new on which he can get his hands on. He blogs on anshuljoshi.xyz.

I'd like to thank my parents, who have been really supportive throughout, my professors, who helped me during my days at university and got me where I am, and my friends, who were very understanding. A big thanks to the Julia community. These people are amazing and are the rockstars of our generation.

I would also like to thank Packt Publishing and the editors for helping me throughout. A special thanks to Sébastien Celles; his expertise and reviews really helped me improve the book.