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Practical Data Analysis

Practical Data Analysis - Second Edition

By : Hector Cuesta, Dr. Sampath Kumar
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Practical Data Analysis

Practical Data Analysis

3.5 (2)
By: Hector Cuesta, Dr. Sampath Kumar

Overview of this book

Beyond buzzwords like Big Data or Data Science, there are a great opportunities to innovate in many businesses using data analysis to get data-driven products. Data analysis involves asking many questions about data in order to discover insights and generate value for a product or a service. This book explains the basic data algorithms without the theoretical jargon, and you’ll get hands-on turning data into insights using machine learning techniques. We will perform data-driven innovation processing for several types of data such as text, Images, social network graphs, documents, and time series, showing you how to implement large data processing with MongoDB and Apache Spark.
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In this chapter, we presented an overview of the data analysis ecosystem and explained the basic concepts of the data analysis process and tools, as well as some insight into the practical applications of data analysis. We have also provided an overview of the different kinds of data, both numerical and categorical. We got into the nature of data: structured (databases, logs, and reports) and unstructured (image collections, social networks, and text mining). Then, we introduced the importance of data visualization and how a fine visualization can help us with exploratory data analysis. Finally, we explored some of the concepts of big data, quantified self-, and social network-analytics.

In the next chapter we will look at the cleaning, processing, and transforming of data using Python and OpenRefine.

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