Hands-on data science with Anaconda : utilize right mix of tools to create high performance data science applications / Yuxing Yan, James Yan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yan, Yuxing, author.

Yan, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Python (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, 2018.

Biography/History:

Yan Yuxing: Yuxing Yan graduated from McGill University with a PhD in finance. Over the years, he has been teaching various finance courses at eight universities: McGill University and Wilfrid Laurier University (in Canada), Nanyang Technological University (in Singapore), Loyola University of Maryland, UMUC, Hofstra University, University at Buffalo, and Canisius College (in the US). His research and teaching areas include: market microstructure, open-source finance and financial data analytics. He has 22 publications including papers published in the Journal of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Real Estate Review, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Applied Financial Economics, and Annals of Operations Research. He is good at several computer languages, such as SAS, R, Python, Matlab, and C. His four books are related to applying two pieces of open-source software to finance: Python for Finance (2014), Python for Finance (2nd ed. , expected 2017), Python for Finance (Chinese version, expected 2017), and Financial Modeling Using R (2016). In addition, he is an expert on data, especially on financial databases. From 2003 to 2010, he worked at Wharton School as a consultant, helping researchers with their programs and data issues. In 2007, he published a book titled Financial Databases (with S. W. Zhu). This book is written in Chinese. Currently, he is writing a new book called Financial Modeling Using Excel in an R-Assisted Learning Environment. The phrase "R-Assisted" distinguishes it from other similar books related to Excel and financial modeling. New features include using a huge amount of public data related to economics, finance, and accounting; an efficient way to retrieve data: 3 seconds for each time series; a free financial calculator, showing 50 financial formulas instantly, 300 websites, 100 YouTube videos, 80 references, paperless for homework, midterms, and final exams; easy to extend for instructors; and especially, no need to learn R. Yan James: James Yan is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto (UofT), currently double-majoring in computer science and statistics. He has hands-on knowledge of Python, R, Java, MATLAB, and SQL. During his study at UofT, he has taken many related courses, such as Methods of Data Analysis I and II, Methods of Applied Statistics, Introduction to Databases, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and Numerical Methods, including a capstone course on AI in clinical medicine.

Summary:

Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda gets you started with Anaconda and demonstrates how you can use it to perform data science operations in the real world. You will learn different ways to retrieve data from various sources and different visualization tools packages available in Python, R, and Julia.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Ecosystem of Anaconda

Introduction

Reasons for using Jupyter via Anaconda

Using Jupyter without pre-installation

Miniconda

Anaconda Cloud

Finding help

Summary

Review questions and exercises

Chapter 2: Anaconda Installation

Installing Anaconda

Anaconda for Windows

Testing Python

Using IPython

Using Python via Jupyter

Introducing Spyder

Installing R via Conda

Installing Julia and linking it to Jupyter

Installing Octave and linking it to Jupyter

Chapter 3: Data Basics

Sources of data

UCI machine learning

Introduction to the Python pandas package

Several ways to input data

Inputting data using R

Inputting data using Python

Introduction to the Quandl data delivery platform

Dealing with missing data

Data sorting

Slicing and dicing datasets

Merging different datasets

Data output

Introduction to the cbsodata Python package

Introduction to the datadotworld Python package

Introduction to the haven and foreign R packages

Introduction to the dslabs R package

Generating Python datasets

Generating R datasets

Chapter 4: Data Visualization

Importance of data visualization

Data visualization in R

Data visualization in Python

Data visualization in Julia

Drawing simple graphs

Various bar charts, pie charts, and histograms

Adding a trend

Adding legends and other explanations

Visualization packages for R

Visualization packages for Python

Visualization packages for Julia

Dynamic visualization

Saving pictures as pdf

Saving dynamic visualization as HTML file

Summary.

Review questions and exercises

Chapter 5: Statistical Modeling in Anaconda

Introduction to linear models

Running a linear regression in R, Python, Julia, and Octave

Critical value and the decision rule

F-test, critical value, and the decision rule

An application of a linear regression in finance

Removing missing data

Replacing missing data with another value

Detecting outliers and treatments

Several multivariate linear models

Collinearity and its solution

A model's performance measure

Chapter 6: Managing Packages

Introduction to packages, modules, or toolboxes

Two examples of using packages

Finding all R packages

Finding all Python packages

Finding all Julia packages

Finding all Octave packages

Task views for R

Finding manuals

Package dependencies

Package management in R

Package management in Python

Package management in Julia

Package management in Octave

Conda - the package manager

Creating a set of programs in R and Python

Finding environmental variables

Chapter 7: Optimization in Anaconda

Why optimization is important

General issues for optimization problems

Expressing various kinds of optimization problems as LPP

Quadratic optimization

Optimization in R

Optimization in Python

Optimization in Julia

Optimization in Octave

Example #1 - stock portfolio optimization

Example #2 - optimal tax policy

Packages for optimization in R

Packages for optimization in Python

Packages for optimization in Octave

Packages for optimization in Julia

Chapter 8: Unsupervised Learning in Anaconda

Introduction to unsupervised learning

Hierarchical clustering.

k-means clustering

Introduction to Python packages - scipy

Introduction to Python packages - contrastive

Introduction to Python packages - sklearn (scikit-learn)

Introduction to R packages - rattle

Introduction to R packages - randomUniformForest

Introduction to R packages - Rmixmod

Implementation using Julia

Task view for Cluster Analysis

Chapter 9: Supervised Learning in Anaconda

A glance at supervised learning

Classification

The k-nearest neighbors algorithm

Bayes classifiers

Reinforcement learning

Implementation of supervised learning via R

Introduction to RTextTools

Implementation via Python

Using the scikit-learn (sklearn) module

Implementation via Octave

Implementation via Julia

Task view for machine learning in R

Chapter 10: Predictive Data Analytics - Modeling and Validation

Understanding predictive data analytics

Useful datasets

The AppliedPredictiveModeling R package

Time series analytics

Predicting future events

Seasonality

Visualizing components

R package - LiblineaR

R package - datarobot

R package - eclust

Model selection

Python package - model-catwalk

Python package - sklearn

Julia package - QuantEcon

Octave package - ltfat

Granger causality test

Chapter 11: Anaconda Cloud

Introduction to Anaconda Cloud

Jupyter Notebook in depth

Formats of Jupyter Notebook

Sharing of notebooks

Sharing of projects

Sharing of environments

Replicating others' environments locally

Downloading a package from Anaconda

Chapter 12: Distributed Computing, Parallel Computing, and HPCC

Introduction to distributed versus parallel computing.

Task view for parallel processing

Sample programs in Python

Understanding MPI

R package Rmpi

R package plyr

R package parallel

R package snow

Parallel processing in Python

Parallel processing for word frequency

Parallel Monte-Carlo options pricing

Compute nodes

Anaconda add-on

Introduction to HPCC

References

Chapter 01: Ecosystem of Anaconda

Chapter 02: Anaconda Installation

Chapter 03: Data Basics

Chapter 04: Data Visualization

Chapter 05: Statistical Modeling in Anaconda

Chapter 06: Managing Packages

Chapter 07: Optimization in Anaconda

Chapter 08: Unsupervised Learning in Anaconda

Chapter 09: Supervised Learning in Anaconda

Chapter 10: Predictive Data Analytics - Modelling and Validation

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788834735

1788834739

OCLC:

1039690173