Practical Data Science Cookbook
- Length: 448 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2014-09-29
- ISBN-10: 1783980249
- ISBN-13: 9781783980246
- Sales Rank: #1227558 (See Top 100 Books)
89 hands-on recipes to help you complete real-world data science projects in R and Python
About This Book
- Learn about the data science pipeline and use it to acquire, clean, analyze, and visualize data
- Understand critical concepts in data science in the context of multiple projects
- Expand your numerical programming skills through step-by-step code examples and learn more about the robust features of R and Python
Who This Book Is For
If you are an aspiring data scientist who wants to learn data science and numerical programming concepts through hands-on, real-world project examples, this is the book for you. Whether you are brand new to data science or you are a seasoned expert, you will benefit from learning about the structure of data science projects, the steps in the data science pipeline, and the programming examples presented in this book. Since the book is formatted to walk you through the projects with examples and explanations along the way, no prior programming experience is required.
In Detail
As increasing amounts of data is generated each year, the need to analyze and operationalize it is more important than ever. Companies that know what to do with their data will have a competitive advantage over companies that don’t, and this will drive a higher demand for knowledgeable and competent data professionals.
Starting with the basics, this book will cover how to set up your numerical programming environment, introduce you to the data science pipeline (an iterative process by which data science projects are completed), and guide you through several data projects in a step-by-step format. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly familiarize yourself with the process and learn how to apply it to a variety of situations with examples in the two most popular programming languages for data analysis—R and Python.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Preparing Your Data Science Environment
Chapter 2: Driving Visual Analysis with Automobile Data (R)
Chapter 3: Simulating American Football Data (R)
Chapter 4: Modeling Stock Market Data (R)
Chapter 5: Visually Exploring Employment Data (R)
Chapter 6: Creating Application-oriented Analyses Using Tax Data (Python)
Chapter 7: Driving Visual Analyses with Automobile Data (Python)
Chapter 8: Working with Social Graphs (Python)
Chapter 9: Recommending Movies at Scale (Python)
Chapter 10: Harvesting and Geolocating Twitter Data (Python)
Chapter 11: Optimizing Numerical Code with NumPy and SciPy (Python)
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