Julia for Data Analysis MEAP Version 7 by 1st Edition Bogumił Kamiński ISBN 9781633439368 1633439364

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ISBN 10: 1633439364
ISBN 13: 9781633439368
Author: Bogumił Kamiński

Julia for Data Analysis MEAP Version 7 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 What is Julia and why is it useful?

1.2 Key features of Julia from a data scientist’s perspective

1.2.1 Julia is fast because it is a compiled language

1.2.2 Julia provides full support for interactive workflows

1.2.3 Julia programs are highly reusable and easy to compose together

1.2.4 Julia has a built-in state-of-the-art package manager

1.2.5 It is easy to integrate existing code with Julia

1.3 Usage scenarios of tools presented in the book

1.4 Julia’s drawbacks

1.5 What data analysis skills will you learn?

1.6 How can Julia be used for data analysis?

Summary

Part 1 Essential Julia skills

2 Getting started with Julia

2.1 Representing values

2.2 Defining variables

2.3 Using the most important control-flow constructs

2.3.1 Computations depending on a Boolean condition

2.3.2 Loops

2.3.3 Compound expressions

2.3.4 A first approach to calculating the winsorized mean

2.4 Defining functions

2.4.1 Defining functions using the function keyword

2.4.2 Positional and keyword arguments of functions

2.4.3 Rules for passing arguments to functions

2.4.4 Short syntax for defining simple functions

2.4.5 Anonymous functions

2.4.6 Do blocks

2.4.7 Function-naming convention in Julia

2.4.8 A simplified definition of a function computing the winsorized mean

2.5 Understanding variable scoping rules

Summary

3 Julia’s support for scaling projects

3.1 Understanding Julia’s type system

3.1.1 A single function in Julia may have multiple methods

3.1.2 Types in Julia are arranged in a hierarchy

3.1.3 Finding all supertypes of a type

3.1.4 Finding all subtypes of a type

3.1.5 Union of types

3.1.6 Deciding what type restrictions to put in method signature

3.2 Using multiple dispatch in Julia

3.2.1 Rules for defining methods of a function

3.2.2 Method ambiguity problem

3.2.3 Improved implementation of winsorized mean

3.3 Working with packages and modules

3.3.1 What is a module in Julia?

3.3.2 How can packages be used in Julia?

3.3.3 Using StatsBase.jl to compute the winsorized mean

3.4 Using macros

Summary

4 Working with collections in Julia

4.1 Working with arrays

4.1.1 Getting the data into a matrix

4.1.2 Computing basic statistics of the data stored in a matrix

4.1.3 Indexing into arrays

4.1.4 Performance considerations of copying vs. making a view

4.1.5 Calculating correlations between variables

4.1.6 Fitting a linear regression

4.1.7 Plotting the Anscombe’s quartet data

4.2 Mapping key-value pairs with dictionaries

4.3 Structuring your data by using named tuples

4.3.1 Defining named tuples and accessing their contents

4.3.2 Analyzing Anscombe’s quartet data stored in a named tuple

4.3.3 Understanding composite types and mutability of values in Julia

Summary

5 Advanced topics on handling collections

5.1 Vectorizing your code using broadcasting

5.1.1 Understanding syntax and meaning of broadcasting in Julia

5.1.2 Expanding length-1 dimensions in broadcasting

5.1.3 Protecting collections from being broadcasted over

5.1.4 Analyzing Anscombe’s quartet data using broadcasting

5.2 Defining methods with parametric types

5.2.1 Most collection types in Julia are parametric

5.2.2 Rules for subtyping of parametric types

5.2.3 Using subtyping rules to define the covariance function

5.3 Integrating with Python

5.3.1 Preparing data for dimensionality reduction using t-SNE

5.3.2 Calling Python from Julia

5.3.3 Visualizing the results of the t-SNE algorithm

Summary

6 Working with strings

6.1 Getting and inspecting the data

6.1.1 Downloading files from the web

6.1.2 Using common techniques of string construction

6.1.3 Reading the contents of a file

6.2 Splitting strings

6.3 Using regular expressions to work with strings

6.3.1 Working with regular expressions

6.3.2 Writing a parser of a single line of movies.dat file

6.4 Extracting a subset from a string with indexing

6.4.1 UTF-8 encoding of strings in Julia

6.4.2 Character vs. byte indexing of strings

6.4.3 ASCII strings

6.4.4 The Char type

6.5 Analyzing genre frequency in movies.dat

6.5.1 Finding common movie genres

6.5.2 Understanding genre popularity evolution over the years

6.6 Introducing symbols

6.6.1 Creating symbols

6.6.2 Using symbols

6.7 Using fixed-width string types to improve performance

6.7.1 Available fixed-width strings

6.7.2 Performance of fixed-width strings

6.8 Compressing vectors of strings with PooledArrays.jl

6.8.1 Creating a file containing flower names

6.8.2 Reading in the data to a vector and compressing it

6.8.3 Understanding the internal design of PooledArray

6.9 Choosing appropriate storage for collections of strings

Summary

7 Handling time-series data and missing values

7.1 Understanding the NBP Web API

7.1.1 Getting the data via a web browser

7.1.2 Getting the data by using Julia

7.1.3 Handling cases when an NBP Web API query fails

7.2 Working with missing data in Julia

7.2.1 Definition of the missing value

7.2.2 Working with missing values

7.3 Getting time-series data from the NBP Web API

7.3.1 Working with dates

7.3.2 Fetching data from the NBP Web API for a range of dates

7.4 Analyzing data fetched from the NBP Web API

7.4.1 Computing summary statistics

7.4.2 Finding which days of the week have the most missing values

7.4.3 Plotting the PLN/USD exchange rate

Summary

Part 2 Toolbox for data analysis

8 First steps with data frames

8.1 Fetching, unpacking, and inspecting the data

8.1.1 Downloading the file from the web

8.1.2 Working with bzip2 archives

8.1.3 Inspecting the CSV file

8.2 Loading the data to a data frame

8.2.1 Reading a CSV file into a data frame

8.2.2 Inspecting the contents of a data frame

8.2.3 Saving a data frame to a CSV file

8.3 Getting a column out of a data frame

8.3.1 Understanding the data frame’s storage model

8.3.2 Treating a data frame column as a property

8.3.3 Getting a column by using data frame indexing

8.3.4 Visualizing data stored in columns of a data frame

8.4 Reading and writing data frames using different formats

8.4.1 Apache Arrow

8.4.2 SQLite

Summary

9 Getting data from a data frame

9.1 Advanced data frame indexing

9.1.1 Getting a reduced puzzles data frame

9.1.2 Overview of allowed column selectors

9.1.3 Overview of allowed row-subsetting values

9.1.4 Making views of data frame objects

9.2 Analyzing the relationship between puzzle difficulty and popularity

9.2.1 Calculating mean puzzle popularity by its rating

9.2.2 Fitting LOESS regression

Summary

10 Creating data frame objects

10.1 Reviewing the most important ways to create a data frame

10.1.1 Creating a data frame from a matrix

10.1.2 Creating a data frame from vectors

10.1.3 Creating a data frame using a Tables.jl interface

10.1.4 Plotting a correlation matrix of data stored in a data frame

10.2 Creating data frames incrementally

10.2.1 Vertically concatenating data frames

10.2.2 Appending a table to a data frame

10.2.3 Adding a new row to an existing data frame

10.2.4 Storing simulation results in a data frame

Summary

11 Converting and grouping data frames

11.1 Converting a data frame to other value types

11.1.1 Conversion to a matrix

11.1.2 Conversion to a named tuple of vectors

11.1.3 Other common conversions

11.2 Grouping data frame objects

11.2.1 Preparing the source data frame

11.2.2 Grouping a data frame

11.2.3 Getting group keys of a grouped data frame

11.2.4 Indexing a grouped data frame with a single value

11.2.5 Comparing performance of indexing methods

11.2.6 Indexing a grouped data frame with multiple values

11.2.7 Iterating a grouped data frame

Summary

12 Mutating and transforming data frames

12.1 Getting and loading the GitHub developers data set

12.1.1 Understanding graphs

12.1.2 Fetching GitHub developer data from the web

12.1.3 Implementing a function that extracts data from a ZIP file

12.1.4 Reading the GitHub developer data into a data frame

12.2 Computing additional node features

12.2.1 Creating a SimpleGraph object

12.2.2 Computing features of nodes by using the Graphs.jl package

12.2.3 Counting a node’s web and machine learning neighbors

12.3 Using the split-apply-combine approach to predict the developer’s type

12.3.1 Computing summary statistics of web and machine learning developer features

12.3.2 Visualizing the relationship between the number of web and machine learning neighbors of a node

12.3.3 Fitting a logistic regression model predicting developer type

12.4 Reviewing data frame mutation operations

12.4.1 Performing low-level API operations

12.4.2 Using the insertcols! function to mutate a data frame

Summary

13 Advanced transformations of data frames

13.1 Getting and preprocessing the police stop data set

13.1.1 Loading all required packages

13.1.2 Introducing the @chain macro

13.1.3 Getting the police stop data set

13.1.4 Comparing functions that perform operations on columns

13.1.5 Using short forms of operation specification syntax

13.2 Investigating the violation column

13.2.1 Finding the most frequent violations

13.2.2 Vectorizing functions by using the ByRow wrapper

13.2.3 Flattening data frames

13.2.4 Using convenience syntax to get the number of rows of a data frame

13.2.5 Sorting data frames

13.2.6 Using advanced functionalities of DataFramesMeta.jl

13.3 Preparing data for making predictions

13.3.1 Performing initial transformation of the data

13.3.2 Working with categorical data

13.3.3 Joining data frames

13.3.4 Reshaping data frames

13.3.5 Dropping rows of a data frame that hold missing values

13.4 Building a predictive model of arrest probability

13.4.1 Splitting the data into train and test data sets

13.4.2 Fitting a logistic regression model

13.4.3 Evaluating the quality of a model’s predictions

13.5 Reviewing functionalities provided by DataFrames.jl

Summary

14 Creating web services for sharing data analysis results

14.1 Pricing financial options by using a Monte Carlo simulation

14.1.1 Calculating the payoff of an Asian option definition

14.1.2 Computing the value of an Asian option

14.1.3 Understanding GBM

14.1.4 Using a numerical approach to computing the Asian option value

14.2 Implementing the option pricing simulator

14.2.1 Starting Julia with multiple-thread support

14.2.2 Computing the option payoff for a single sample of stock prices

14.2.3 Computing the option value

14.3 Creating a web service serving the Asian option valuation

14.3.1 A general approach to building a web service

14.3.2 Creating a web service using Genie.jl

14.3.3 Running the web service

14.4 Using the Asian option pricing web service

14.4.1 Sending a single request to the web service

14.4.2 Collecting responses to multiple requests from a web service in a data frame

14.4.3 Unnesting a column of a data frame

14.4.4 Plotting the results of Asian option pricing

Summary

Appendix A First steps with Julia

A.1 Installing and setting up Julia

A.2 Getting help in and about Julia

A.3 Managing packages in Julia

A.3.1 Project environments

A.3.2 Activating project environments

A.3.3 Potential issues with installing packages

A.3.4 Managing packages

A.3.5 Setting up integration with Python

A.3.6 Setting up integration with R

A.4 Reviewing standard ways to work with Julia

A.4.1 Using a terminal

A.4.2 Using Visual Studio Code

A.4.3 Using Jupyter Notebook

A.4.4 Using Pluto notebooks

Appendix B Solutions to exercises

Appendix C Julia packages for data science

C.1 Plotting ecosystems in Julia

C.2 Scaling computing with Julia

C.3 Working with databases and data storage formats

C.4 Using data science methods

Summary

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