Clojure data analysis cookbook : over 110 recipes to help you dive into the world of practical data analysis using Clojure /: over 110 recipes to help you dive into the world of practical data analysis using Clojure. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eric Rochester.
• Other Names: Rochester, Eric
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Importing Data for Analysis; Introduction; Creating a new project; Reading CSV data into Incanter datasets; Reading JSON data into Incanter datasets; Reading data from Excel with Incanter; Reading data from JDBC databases; Reading XML data into Incanter datasets; Scraping data from tables in web pages; Scraping textual data from web pages; Reading RDF data; Reading RDF data with SPARQL; Aggregating data from different formats; Chapter 2: Cleaning and Validating Data. IntroductionCleaning data with regular expressions; Maintaining consistency with synonym maps; Identifying and removing duplicate data; Normalizing numbers; Rescaling values; Normalizing dates and times; Lazily processing very large data sets; Sampling from very large data sets; Fixing spelling errors; Parsing custom data formats; Validating data with Valip; Chapter 3: Managing Complexity with Concurrent Programming; Introduction; Managing program complexity with STM; Managing program complexity with agents; Getting better performance with commute; Combining agents and STM. Maintaining consistency with ensureIntroducing safe side effects into the STM; Maintaining data consistency with validators; Tracking processing with watchers; Debugging concurrent programs with watchers; Recovering from errors in agents; Managing input with sized queues; Chapter 4: Improving Performance with Parallel Programming; Introduction; Parallelizing processing with pmap; Parallelizing processing with Incanter; Partitioning Monte Carlo simulations for better pmap performance; Finding the optimal partition size with simulated annealing; Parallelizing with reducers. Generating online summary statistics with reducersHarnessing your GPU with OpenCL and Calx; Using type hints; Benchmarking with Criterium; Chapter 5: Distributed Data Processing with Cascalog; Introduction; Distributed processing with Cascalog and Hadoop; Querying data with Cascalog; Distributing data with Apache HDFS; Parsing CSV files with Cascalog; Complex queries with Cascalog; Aggregating data with Cascalog; Defining new Cascalog operators; Composing Cascalog queries; Handling errors in Cascalog workflows; Transforming data with Cascalog. Executing Cascalog queries in the Cloud with PalletChapter 6: Working with Incanter Datasets; Introduction; Loading Incanter's sample datasets; Loading Clojure data structures into datasets; Viewing datasets interactively with view; Converting datasets to matrices; Using infix formulas in Incanter; Selecting columns with ; Selecting rows with ; Filtering datasets with where; Grouping data with group-by; Saving datasets to CSV and JSON; Projecting from multiple datasets with join; Chapter 7: Preparing for and Performing Statistical Data Analysis with Incanter; Introduction.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (iv, 329 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.133; COMPUTERS -- Data Modeling & Design; Clojure (Computer program language); JavaScript (Computer program language); Computer programming; Application software -- Development; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C♯; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Java; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Pascal; Application software -- Development; Clojure (Computer program language); Computer programming; JavaScript (Computer program language); COMPUTERS -- Databases -- Data Mining; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782162650; 1782162658; 9781680154160; 1680154168
• Related ISBNs: 178216264X; 9781782162643
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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