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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)

Data visualization in R

Firstly, let's see the simplest graph for R. With the following one-line R code, we draw a cosine function from -2π to :

> plot(cos,-2*pi,2*pi) 

The related graph is shown here:

Histograms could also help us understand the distribution of data points. The previous graph is a simple example of this. First, we generate a set of random numbers drawn from a standard normal distribution. For the purposes of illustration, the first line of set.seed() is actually redundant. Its existence would guarantee that all users would get the same set of random numbers if the same seed was used ( 333 in this case).

In other words, with the same set of input values, our histogram would look the same. In the next line, the rnorm(n) function draws n random numbers from a standard normal distribution. The last line then has the hist() function to generate...