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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By : Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev
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Java: Data Science Made Easy

By: Richard M. Reese, Jennifer L. Reese, Alexey Grigorev

Overview of this book

Data science is concerned with extracting knowledge and insights from a wide variety of data sources to analyse patterns or predict future behaviour. It draws from a wide array of disciplines including statistics, computer science, mathematics, machine learning, and data mining. In this course, we cover the basic as well as advanced data science concepts and how they are implemented using the popular Java tools and libraries.The course starts with an introduction of data science, followed by the basic data science tasks of data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, and data visualization. This is followed by a discussion of statistical techniques and more advanced topics including machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. You will examine the major categories of data analysis including text, visual, and audio data, followed by a discussion of resources that support parallel implementation. Throughout this course, the chapters will illustrate a challenging data science problem, and then go on to present a comprehensive, Java-based solution to tackle that problem. You will cover a wide range of topics – from classification and regression, to dimensionality reduction and clustering, deep learning and working with Big Data. Finally, you will see the different ways to deploy the model and evaluate it in production settings. By the end of this course, you will be up and running with various facets of data science using Java, in no time at all. This course contains premium content from two of our recently published popular titles: - Java for Data Science - Mastering Java for Data Science
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
15
Module 2
26
Bibliography

Natural Language Processing and information retrieval


Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a part of computer science and computational linguistics that deals with textual data. To a computer, texts are unstructured, and NLP helps find the structure and extract useful information from them.

Information retrieval (IR) is a discipline that studies searching in large unstructured datasets. Typically, these datasets are texts, and the IR systems help users find what they want. Search engines such as Google or Bing are examples of such IR systems: they take in a query and provide a collection of documents ranked according to relevance with respect to the query.

Usually, IR systems use NLP for understanding what the documents are about - so later, when the user needs, these documents can be retrieved. In this chapter, we will go over the basics of text processing for information retrieval. 

Vector Space Model - Bag of Words and TF-IDF

For a computer, a text is just a string of characters with no...