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Java Data Analysis

By : John R. Hubbard
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Java Data Analysis

By: John R. Hubbard

Overview of this book

Data analysis is a process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the aim of discovering useful information. Java is one of the most popular languages to perform your data analysis tasks. This book will help you learn the tools and techniques in Java to conduct data analysis without any hassle. After getting a quick overview of what data science is and the steps involved in the process, you’ll learn the statistical data analysis techniques and implement them using the popular Java APIs and libraries. Through practical examples, you will also learn the machine learning concepts such as classification and regression. In the process, you’ll familiarize yourself with tools such as Rapidminer and WEKA and see how these Java-based tools can be used effectively for analysis. You will also learn how to analyze text and other types of multimedia. Learn to work with relational, NoSQL, and time-series data. This book will also show you how you can utilize different Java-based libraries to create insightful and easy to understand plots and graphs. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of the various data analysis techniques, and how to implement them using Java.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Java Data Analysis
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

About the Reviewers

Erin Paciorkowski studied computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a National Merit Scholar. She has worked in Java development for the Department of Defense for over 8 years and is also a graduate teaching assistant for the Georgia Tech Online Masters of Computer Science program. She is a certified scrum master and holds Security+, Project+, and ITIL Foundation certifications. She was a Grace Hopper Celebration Scholar in 2016. Her interests include data analysis and information security.

Alexey Zinoviev is a lead engineer and Java and big data trainer at EPAM Systems, with a focus on Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Java concurrency, and JVM internals. He has deep expertise in machine learning, large graph processing, and the development of distributed scalable Java applications. You can follow him at @zaleslaw or https://github.com/zaleslaw.

Currently, he's working on a Spark Tutorial at https://github.com/zaleslaw/Spark-Tutorial and on an Open GitBook about Spark (in Russian) at https://zaleslaw.gitbooks.io/data-processing-book/content/.