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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 have explained many important issues related to statistics, such as T-distribution, F-distribution, T-tests, F-tests, and other hypothesis tests. We have also discussed linear regression, how to deal with missing data, how to treat outliers, collinearity and its treatments, and how to run a multi-variable linear regression.

In Chapter 6, Managing Packages, we will discuss the importance of managing package; how to find out about all packages available for R, Python, and Julia; and how to find the manual for each package. In addition, we will discuss the issue of package dependency and how to make our programming a little easier when dealing with packages.