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Hands-On Data Science with SQL Server 2017

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Science with SQL Server 2017 Perform end-to-end data analysis to gain efficient data insight

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996341
Length 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Preface 1. Data Science Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. SQL Server 2017 as a Data Science Platform 3. Data Sources for Analytics 4. Data Transforming and Cleaning with T-SQL 5. Data Exploration and Statistics with T-SQL 6. Custom Aggregations on SQL Server 7. Data Visualization 8. Data Transformations with Other Tools 9. Predictive Model Training and Evaluation 10. Making Predictions 11. Getting It All Together - A Real-World Example 12. Next Steps with Data Science and SQL 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

The need for data transformation

The crucial question is this: why do we need data to be transformed for data science? There are two principal reasons for this. The first of these reasons is to obtain datasets or small amounts of datasets because data science models are commonly based on the statistical population dataset. We can do JOINs in our data before they are analyzed or used for machine learning training, for example, but this often leads to unnecessary complications in the model, and it could also have a performance impact on the training time.

The second reason is a bit more complicated. The world is full of data, and the volume of it is always growing. The previous Chapter 3, Data Sources for Analytics, showed a lot of data sources and data creation methods. Let's summarize the increase of data from a different point of view. We can think about data from the perspective...

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