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Big Data Analysis with Python

By : Ivan Marin, Ankit Shukla, Sarang VK
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Big Data Analysis with Python

By: Ivan Marin, Ankit Shukla, Sarang VK

Overview of this book

Processing big data in real time is challenging due to scalability, information inconsistency, and fault tolerance. Big Data Analysis with Python teaches you how to use tools that can control this data avalanche for you. With this book, you'll learn practical techniques to aggregate data into useful dimensions for posterior analysis, extract statistical measurements, and transform datasets into features for other systems. The book begins with an introduction to data manipulation in Python using pandas. You'll then get familiar with statistical analysis and plotting techniques. With multiple hands-on activities in store, you'll be able to analyze data that is distributed on several computers by using Dask. As you progress, you'll study how to aggregate data for plots when the entire data cannot be accommodated in memory. You'll also explore Hadoop (HDFS and YARN), which will help you tackle larger datasets. The book also covers Spark and explains how it interacts with other tools. By the end of this book, you'll be able to bootstrap your own Python environment, process large files, and manipulate data to generate statistics, metrics, and graphs.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Big Data Analysis with Python
Preface

Gathering Data in a Reproducible Way


Once the problem is defined, the first step in an analysis task is gathering data. Data can be extracted from multiple sources: databases, legacy systems, real-time data, external data, and so on. Data sources and the way data can be ingested into the model needs to be documented.

Let's understand how to use markdown and code block functionalities in the Jupyter notebook. Text can be added to Jupyter notebooks using markdown cells. These texts can be changed to bold or italic, like in any text editor. To change the cell type to markdown, you can use the Cell menu. We will look at the ways you can use various functionalities in markdown and code cells in Jupyter.

Functionalities in Markdown and Code Cells

  • Markdown in Jupyter: To select the markdown option in Jupyter, click on Widgets and Markdown from the drop-down menu:

    Figure 7.1: The markdown option in the Jupyter notebook

  • Heading in Jupyter: There are two types of headings in the Jupyter notebook. The syntax...