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Java for Data Science

You're reading from   Java for Data Science Examine the techniques and Java tools supporting the growing field of data science

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785280115
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jennifer L. Reese Jennifer L. Reese
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Richard M. Reese Richard M. Reese
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Data Science FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Acquisition 3. Data Cleaning 4. Data Visualization 5. Statistical Data Analysis Techniques 6. Machine Learning 7. Neural Networks 8. Deep Learning 9. Text Analysis 10. Visual and Audio Analysis 11. Mathematical and Parallel Techniques for Data Analysis 12. Bringing It All Together

The nitty gritty of cleaning text


Strings are used to support text processing so using a good string library is important. Unfortunately, the java.lang.String class has some limitations. To address these limitations, you can either implement your own special string functions as needed or you can use a third-party library.

Creating your own library can be useful, but you will basically be reinventing the wheel. It may be faster to write a simple code sequence to implement some functionality, but to do things right, you will need to test them. Third-party libraries have already been tested and have been used on hundreds of projects. They provide a more efficient way of processing text.

There are several text processing APIs in addition to those found in Java. We will demonstrate two of these:

Java provides many supports for cleaning text data, including methods in the String class. These methods are ideal for simple...

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