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Practical Data Analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785289712
Length 338 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Hector Cuesta Hector Cuesta
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Dr. Sampath Kumar Dr. Sampath Kumar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Preprocessing Data FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting to Grips with Visualization 4. Text Classification 5. Similarity-Based Image Retrieval 6. Simulation of Stock Prices 7. Predicting Gold Prices 8. Working with Support Vector Machines 9. Modeling Infectious Diseases with Cellular Automata 10. Working with Social Graphs 11. Working with Twitter Data 12. Data Processing and Aggregation with MongoDB 13. Working with MapReduce 14. Online Data Analysis with Jupyter and Wakari 15. Understanding Data Processing using Apache Spark

Data reduction methods


Many data scientists use large data size in volume for analysis, which takes a long time, though it is very difficult to analyze the data sometimes. In data analytics applications, if you use a large amount of data, it may produce redundant results. In order to overcome such difficulties, we can use data reduction methods.

Data reduction is the transformation of numerical or alphabetical digital information derived empirically or experimentally into a corrected, ordered, and simplified form. Reduced data size is very small in volume and comparatively original, hence, the storage efficiency will increase and at the same time we can minimize the data handling costs and will minimize the analysis time also.

We can use several types of data reduction methods, which are listed as follows:

  • Filtering and sampling

  • Binned algorithm

  • Dimensionality reduction

Filtering and sampling

In data reduction methods, filtering plays an important role. Filtering explains the process of detecting...

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