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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
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Section 2: Data Analysis and Manipulation with Danfo.js and Dnotebook
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Section 3: Building Data-Driven Applications

Chapter 3: Getting Started with Danfo.js

The Python data science and machine learning ecosystem is very mature when compared to other programming languages, but when it comes to data presentation and the client side, JavaScript reigns supreme. From its robust data presentation tools to its ready availability in the browser to ease of setup, JavaScript is always recommended.

In this chapter, we will introduce you to the Danfo.js library, thus giving you an efficient tool for data analysis and manipulation in JavaScript. We'll cover the core data structures of Danfo.js – DataFrames and Series. We'll show you how to load different types of files, such as JSON, Excel, and CSV, into Danfo.js, and finally, you'll learn about some important functions available in Danfo.js that make data analysis and preprocessing in JavaScript easier.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Why you need Danfo.js
  • Installing Danfo.js
  • Introducing Series...