Explore intuitive data analysis techniques and powerful machine learning methods using over 130 practical recipes
Overview
A practical and concise guide to using Haskell when getting to grips with data analysis
Recipes for every stage of data analysis, from collection to visualization
In-depth examples demonstrating various tools, solutions and techniques
In Detail
This book will take you on a voyage through all the steps involved in data analysis. It provides synergy between Haskell and data modeling, consisting of carefully chosen examples featuring some of the most popular machine learning techniques.
You will begin with how to obtain and clean data from various sources. You will then learn how to use various data structures such as trees and graphs. The meat of data analysis occurs in the topics involving statistical techniques, parallelism, concurrency, and machine learning algorithms, along with various examples of visualizing and exporting results. By the end of the book, you will be empowered with techniques to maximize your potential when using Haskell for data analysis.
What you will learn from this book
Obtain and analyze raw data from various sources including text files, CSV files, databases, and websites
Implement practical tree and graph algorithms on various datasets
Apply statistical methods such as moving average and linear regression to understand patterns
Fiddle with parallel and concurrent code to speed up and simplify time-consuming algorithms
Find clusters in data using some of the most popular machine learning algorithms
Manage results by visualizing or exporting data
Approach
Step-by-step recipes filled with practical code samples and engaging examples demonstrate Haskell in practice, and then the concepts behind the code.
Who this book is written for
This book shows functional developers and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Haskell specifically for high-quality data analysis. A good understanding of data sets and functional programming is assumed.