Clojure data analysis cookbook / / Eric Rochester

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911006788503321
• Autore: Rochester Eric
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, UK, : Packt Pub., c2013
• ISBN: 1-68015-416-8; 1-299-44085-1; 1-78216-265-8
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Disciplina: 005.133
• Soggetti: Database searching; Clojure (Computer program language)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Generating summary statistics with rollup
• Sommario/riassunto: Full of practical tips, the ""Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook"" will help you fully utilize your data through a series of step-by-step, real world recipes covering every aspect of data analysis.Prior experience with Clojure and data analysis techniques and workflows will be beneficial, but not essential.