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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 Anaconda Cloud. Some topics included the Jupyter Notebook in depth, different formats of the Jupyter Notebook, how to share notebooks with your partner, how to share different projects over different platforms, how to share your working environments, and how to replicate others' environments locally.

For the next chapter, we will discuss distributed computing and Anaconda Accelerate. When our data or tasks become more complex, we'll need a good system or a set of tools to process data and run a complex algorithm. For this purpose, distributed computing is one solution. In particular, we will explain many concepts, such as compute nodes, project add-ons, parallel processing advanced Python for data parallelism. In addition, we will give several examples showing how to use distributed computing.

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