15.4 Summary
In this chapter we have created a foundation for building and using a statistical model of source data. We’ve looked at the following topics:
Designing and building a more complex pipeline of processes for gathering and analyzing data.
Some of the core concepts behind creating a statistical model of some data.
Use of the built-in
statisticslibrary.Publishing the results of the statistical measures.
This application tends to be relatively small. The actual computations of the various statistical values leverage the built-in statistics library and tend to be very small. It often seems like there’s far more programming involved in parsing the CLI argument values, and creating the required output file, than doing the “real work” of this application.
This is a consequence of the way we’ve been separating the various concerns in data acquisition, cleaning, and analysis. We’ve partitioned the work into several, isolated stages along...