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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By : Yuxing Yan, James Yan
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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By: Yuxing Yan, James Yan

Overview of this book

Anaconda is an open source platform that brings together the best tools for data science professionals with more than 100 popular packages supporting Python, Scala, and R languages. Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda gets you started with Anaconda and demonstrates how you can use it to perform data science operations in the real world. The book begins with setting up the environment for Anaconda platform in order to make it accessible for tools and frameworks such as Jupyter, pandas, matplotlib, Python, R, Julia, and more. You’ll walk through package manager Conda, through which you can automatically manage all packages including cross-language dependencies, and work across Linux, macOS, and Windows. You’ll explore all the essentials of data science and linear algebra to perform data science tasks using packages such as SciPy, contrastive, scikit-learn, Rattle, and Rmixmod. Once you’re accustomed to all this, you’ll start with operations in data science such as cleaning, sorting, and data classification. You’ll move on to learning how to perform tasks such as clustering, regression, prediction, and building machine learning models and optimizing them. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to visualize data using the packages available for Julia, Python, and R.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed predictive data analytics, modeling and validation, some useful datasets, time series analytics, how to predict future events, seasonality, and how to visualize our data. For Python packages, we have mentioned prsklearn and catwalk. For R packages, we have discussed datarobot, LiblineaR, andeclust. For Julia packages, we explained EQuantEcon. For Octave, we have explained ltfat.

In the next chapter, we will discuss Anaconda Cloud. Some topics include the Jupyter Notebook in depth, different formats of the Jupyter Notebooks, how to share notebooks with your partners, how to share different projects over different platforms, how to share your working environments, and how to replicate others' environments locally.