JavaScript for data science / Maya Gans, Toby Hodges, and Greg Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gans, Maya, author.

Series:

Chapman & Hall/CRC data science series.

Chapman & Hall/CRC data science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Mathematical statistics--Data processing.

Mathematical statistics.

Information visualization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2020.

Summary:

JavaScript is the native language of the Internet. Originally created to make web pages more dynamic, it is now used for software projects of all kinds, including scientific visualization and data services. However, most data scientists have little or no experience with JavaScript, and most introductions to the language are written for people who want to build shopping carts rather than share maps of coral reefs. This book will introduce you to JavaScript's power and idiosyncrasies and guide you through the key features of the language and its tools and libraries. The book places equal focus on client- and server-side programming, and shows readers how to create interactive web content, build and test data services, and visualize data in the browser. Topics include: The core features of modern JavaScript Creating templated web pages Making those pages interactive using React Data visualization using Vega-Lite Using Data-Forge to wrangle tabular data Building a data service with Express Unit testing with Mocha All of the material is covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license (CC-BY-NC-4.0) and is included in the book's companion website at http://js4ds.org . Maya Gans is a freelance data scientist and front-end developer by way of quantitative biology. Toby Hodges is a bioinformatician turned community coordinator who works at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Greg Wilson co-founded Software Carpentry, and is now part of the education team at RStudio

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Who You Are

1.2 Who We Are

1.3 Setting Up

1.4 Contributing

1.4.1 Acknowledgments

1.5 Exercises

Chapter 2: Basic Features

2.1 Hello, World

2.2 Basic Data Types

2.3 Control Flow

2.4 Formatting Strings

2.5 Objects

2.6 Functions

2.7 Modules

2.8 Exercises

Chapter 3: Callbacks

3.1 The Call Stack

3.2 Functions of Functions

3.3 Anonymous Functions

3.4 Functional Programming

3.5 Closures

3.6 Exercises

Chapter 4: Objects and Classes

4.1 Doing It By Hand

4.2 Classes

4.3 Inheritance

4.4 Exercises

Chapter 5: HTML and CSS

5.1 Formatting

5.2 Text

5.3 Pages

5.4 Attributes

5.5 Lists

5.6 Tables

5.7 Links

5.8 Images

5.9 Cascading Style Sheets

5.10 Bootstrap

5.11 Exercises

Chapter 6: Manipulating Pages

6.1 Counting Paragraphs

6.2 Creating a Table of Contents

6.3 Sortable Lists

6.4 Bibliographic Citations

6.5 A Real-time Clock

6.6 Exercises

Chapter 7: Dynamic Pages

7.1 Hello, World

7.2 JSX

7.3 Creating Components

7.4 Developing with Parcel

7.5 Multiple Files

7.6 Exercises

Chapter 8: Visualizing Data

8.1 Vega-Lite

8.2 Local Installation

8.3 Exercises

Chapter 9: Promises

9.1 The Execution Queue

9.2 Promises

9.3 Using Promises

9.4 async and await

9.5 Exercises

Chapter 10: Interactive Sites

10.1 But It Doesn't Work

10.2 Models and Views

10.3 Fetching Data

10.4 Exercises

Chapter 11: Managing Data

11.1 Data Formats

11.2 Slicing Data

11.3 Data Manager

11.4 Exercises

Chapter 12: Creating a Server

12.1 HTTP

12.2 Hello, Express

12.3 Handling Multiple Paths

12.4 Serving Files from Disk

12.5 Content Types

12.6 Exercises.

Chapter 13: Testing

13.1 Introducing Mocha

13.2 Refactoring

13.3 Testing the Server

13.4 Checking the HTML

13.5 Exercises

Chapter 14: Using Data-Forge

14.1 Basic Operations

14.2 Doing Calculations

14.3 Subsets

14.4 Aggregation

14.5 In Real Life

14.6 Exercises

Chapter 15: Capstone Project

15.1 Data Manager

15.2 Server

15.3 API

15.4 The Display

15.5 The Tables

15.6 The Chart

15.7 Running It

15.8 Exercises

Chapter 16: Finale

Bibliography

Appendix A: License

Appendix B: Code of Conduct

B.1 Our Standards

B.2 Our Responsibilities

B.3 Scope

B.4 Enforcement

B.5 Attribution

Appendix C: Contributing

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix E: Key Points

Appendix F: Collaborating

F.1 Licensing Software

F.2 Licensing Data and Documentation

F.3 Code of Conduct

F.4 Governance

Appendix G: Legacy JavaScript Issues

G.1 Equality

G.2 Iteration

G.3 Prototypes

Appendix H: Regular Expressions

Appendix I: Logging

Appendix J: Extensible Servers

Appendix K: Using a Database

K.1 Starting Point

K.2 In-Memory Database

K.3 Making It Testable

K.4 Testing

K.5 Updating the Database

K.6 Exercises

Appendix L: Deploying

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-02859-3

0-367-85418-X

1-000-02855-0

9780367854188

OCLC:

1139350352