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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

A brief primer on Plotly.js

Plotly.js (https://plotly.com/javascript/), according to the authors, is an open source, high-level, declarative charting library built on top of the popular D3.js (https://d3js.org/) and stack.gl (https://github.com/stackgl) libraries.

It supports over 40 chart types, including these kinds:

  • Basic charts such as scatter plots, line plots, and bar and pie charts
  • Statistical graphs such as box plots, histograms, and density plots
  • Scientific charts such as heatmaps, log plots, and contour plots
  • Financial charts such as waterfall, candlestick, and time-series charts
  • Maps such as bubble, choropleth, and Mapbox maps
  • Three-dimensional (3D) charts for scatter plots and surface plots, as well as 3D meshes

To use Plotly.js, you need access to the browser's Document Object Model (DOM). This means that Plotly.js is a client-side library, and as such can only be used in the browser via a content delivery network (CDN) script...