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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

By : Yuxing Yan, James Yan
Book Image

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 first discussed sources of open data, which included The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau, Professor French's data library, the Federal Reserve's data library, and the UCI Machine Learning Depository. After that, we showed you how to input data; how to deal with missing data; how to sort, slice, and dice the datasets; and how to merge different datasets. Data output was discussed in detail. For different languages, such as Python, R, and Julia, several relevant packages for data manipulation were introduced and discussed.

In Chapter 4, Data Visualization, we will discuss data visualization in R, Python, and Julia separately. To make our visual presentation more eye catching, we will show how you to generate simple graphs and bar charts, as well as how to add trend lines and legends. Other explanations will include how to save...