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Data Science at the Command Line: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools

Name: Data Science at the Command Line: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools
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Book Synopsis: 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

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Are you a data scientist looking for ways to improve your workflow and increase your productivity? Look no further! Introducing "Data Science at the Command Line: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools". This comprehensive guide will show you how to leverage the flexibility and power of the command line to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data. No matter if you're a Windows, macOS, or Linux user, the Docker image provided with over 100 Unix power tools will prove invaluable to your data science journey.

Why limit yourself to Python or R when you have the command line at your disposal? With this book, you'll learn how to combine small yet powerful command-line tools to enhance your data science capabilities. From obtaining data from various sources to performing scrub operations on different file formats, this book covers it all. Gain valuable insights from your data, compute descriptive statistics, create stunning visualizations, and optimize your data science workflow.

Designed for data scientists, analysts, engineers, system administrators, and researchers, this book is a must-have for anyone who wants to take their data science skills to the next level. Don't miss out on the opportunity to become a more efficient and productive data scientist. Embrace the command line's agility, scalability, and extensibility. Take charge of your data science journey today!

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