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Data Processing with Optimus

By : Dr. Argenis Leon, Luis Aguirre
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Data Processing with Optimus

By: Dr. Argenis Leon, Luis Aguirre

Overview of this book

Optimus is a Python library that works as a unified API for data cleaning, processing, and merging data. It can be used for handling small and big data on your local laptop or on remote clusters using CPUs or GPUs. The book begins by covering the internals of Optimus and how it works in tandem with the existing technologies to serve your data processing needs. You'll then learn how to use Optimus for loading and saving data from text data formats such as CSV and JSON files, exploring binary files such as Excel, and for columnar data processing with Parquet, Avro, and OCR. Next, you'll get to grips with the profiler and its data types - a unique feature of Optimus Dataframe that assists with data quality. You'll see how to use the plots available in Optimus such as histogram, frequency charts, and scatter and box plots, and understand how Optimus lets you connect to libraries such as Plotly and Altair. You'll also delve into advanced applications such as feature engineering, machine learning, cross-validation, and natural language processing functions and explore the advancements in Optimus. Finally, you'll learn how to create data cleaning and transformation functions and add a hypothetical new data processing engine with Optimus. By the end of this book, you'll be able to improve your data science workflow with Optimus easily.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Optimus
4
Section 2: Optimus – Transform and Rollout
10
Section 3: Advanced Features of Optimus

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a lot of techniques for preparing our data to be consumed by machine learning algorithms.

One of these techniques is imputation, which is useful for data that contains null values. For data that contains unexpected values, we can apply outlier handling.

By using binning, we can categorize numeric data. If our numeric data is not correctly distributed, we can remove skewness by applying variable transformations, using methods we looked at in the previous chapters.

On the other hand, one-hot encoding allows us to separate the values from a column into multiple Boolean columns. We can split one value that contains lots of data into multiple values by using feature split. Finally, we learned how to scale our data by using multiple methods.

Now that you know about all these techniques, you can make your first steps into machine learning.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to use the data we've prepared so far to create models using...