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Principles of Data Science - Second Edition

By : Sinan Ozdemir, Sunil Kakade, Marco Tibaldeschi
Book Image

Principles of Data Science - Second Edition

By: Sinan Ozdemir, Sunil Kakade, Marco Tibaldeschi

Overview of this book

Need to turn programming skills into effective data science skills? This book helps you connect mathematics, programming, and business analysis. You’ll feel confident asking—and answering—complex, sophisticated questions of your data, making abstract and raw statistics into actionable ideas. Going through the data science pipeline, you'll clean and prepare data and learn effective data mining strategies and techniques to gain a comprehensive view of how the data science puzzle fits together. You’ll learn fundamentals of computational mathematics and statistics and pseudo-code used by data scientists and analysts. You’ll learn machine learning, discovering statistical models that help control and navigate even the densest datasets, and learn powerful visualizations that communicate what your data means.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Configuring Azure Databricks

We will first begin with the configuration of Azure Databricks via the following steps:

  1. In order to use Azure Databricks, you need an active Azure subscription. If you still don't have an Azure subscription, create a free one at https://azure.microsoft.com/free/.
  2. Once you have logged into your Azure portal—https://portal.azure.com–click on Create a Resource , then select Analytics, and finally click on Azure Databricks, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Configuring Azure Databricks
  3. Under Azure Databricks, as shown in the following screenshot, provide the necessary information in order to create an Azure Databricks workspace. You'll need to enter the following:
    • Workspace name: A name unique to your subscription
    • Subscription: Your Azure subscription
    • Resource group: Select your resource group
    • Location: Select your location
    • Pricing Tier: You may choose between Standard and Premium tiers

      Note

      There is an active promotion that allows you to try, completely for free, the Premium...