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Building Data-Driven Applications with Danfo.js

By : Rising Odegua, Stephen Oni
Book Image

Building Data-Driven Applications with Danfo.js

By: Rising Odegua, Stephen Oni

Overview of this book

Most data analysts use Python and pandas for data processing for the convenience and performance these libraries provide. However, JavaScript developers have always wanted to use machine learning in the browser as well. This book focuses on how Danfo.js brings data processing, analysis, and ML tools to JavaScript developers and how to make the most of this library to build data-driven applications. Starting with an overview of modern JavaScript, you’ll cover data analysis and transformation with Danfo.js and Dnotebook. The book then shows you how to load different datasets, combine and analyze them by performing operations such as handling missing values and string manipulations. You’ll also get to grips with data plotting, visualization, aggregation, and group operations by combining Danfo.js with Plotly. As you advance, you’ll create a no-code data analysis and handling system and create-react-app, react-table, react-chart, Draggable.js, and tailwindcss, and understand how to use TensorFlow.js and Danfo.js to build a recommendation system. Finally, you’ll build a Twitter analytics dashboard powered by Danfo.js, Next.js, node-nlp, and Twit.js. By the end of this app development book, you’ll be able to build and embed data analytics, visualization, and ML capabilities into any JavaScript app in server-side Node.js or the browser.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
3
Section 2: Data Analysis and Manipulation with Danfo.js and Dnotebook
10
Section 3: Building Data-Driven Applications

Setup and installation of Dnotebook

To get Dnotebook installed and running locally, you need to ensure that Node.js is installed. Once Node.js is installed, you can easily install Dnotebook by running the following command in your terminal:

npm install –g dnotebook

The preceding command installs Dnotebook globally. This is the recommended way of installing it, as it ensures that the Dnotebook server can be started from anywhere on our computer.

Note

You can also use Dnotebook online without installing it; check out the Dnotebook playground (https://playnotebook.jsdata.org/demo).

After installation, you can start the server by running the following in a terminal/command prompt:

> dnotebook

This command will open up a tab as shown in the following screenshot in your default browser at port http://localhost:4400:

Figure 2.2 – Dnotebook home page

The opened page is the default page for the Dnotebook interface, and from here...