Data Science at the Command Line
Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools
by Jeroen Janssens
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- Obtain data from websites, APIs, databases, and spreadsheets;
- Perform scrub operations on text, CSV, HTML, XML, and JSON files;
- Explore data, compute descriptive statistics, and create visualizations;
- Manage your data science workflow;
- Create your own tools from one-liners and existing Python or R code;
- Parallelize and distribute data-intensive pipelines;
- Model data with dimensionality reduction, regression, and classification algorithms;
- Leverage the command line from Python, Jupyter, R, RStudio, and Apache Spark. 
Book Description
This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You'll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. To get you started, author Jeroen Janssens provides a Docker image packed with over 100 Unix power tools - useful whether you work with Windows, macOS, or Linux.You'll quickly discover why the command line is an agile, scalable, and extensible technology. Even if you're comfortable processing data with Python or R, you'll learn how to greatly improve your data science workflow by leveraging the command line's power. This book is ideal for data scientists, analysts, engineers, system administrators, and researchers.- Obtain data from websites, APIs, databases, and spreadsheets;
- Perform scrub operations on text, CSV, HTML, XML, and JSON files;
- Explore data, compute descriptive statistics, and create visualizations;
- Manage your data science workflow;
- Create your own tools from one-liners and existing Python or R code;
- Parallelize and distribute data-intensive pipelines;
- Model data with dimensionality reduction, regression, and classification algorithms;
- Leverage the command line from Python, Jupyter, R, RStudio, and Apache Spark.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). Free download in PDF format is not available. You can read Data Science at the Command Line book online for free.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Getting Started
Chapter 3
Obtaining Data
Chapter 4
Creating Command-line Tools
Chapter 5
Scrubbing Data
Chapter 6
Project Management with Make
Chapter 7
Exploring Data
Chapter 8
Parallel Pipelines
Chapter 9
Modeling Data
Chapter 10
Polyglot Data Science
Chapter 11
Conclusion
Book Details
Title
Data Science at the Command Line
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
2021
Pages
282
Edition
2
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781492087915
ISBN10 Digital
1492087912
License
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