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Hands-On Data Science with SQL Server 2017

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788996341
Pages 506 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Marek Chmel Marek Chmel
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Vladimír Mužný Vladimír Mužný
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Data Science Overview 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

Questions

  1. What is the best way to handle missing values?
    In this case, the best thing is to remove a whole column or row. However, this can lead to a significant loss of information. For this reason, other methods are used, such as replacing missing value with the mean, mode, or median. We can also use custom values and more sophisticated methods for missing-value imputation, including the mean of closest neighbors or linear regression.
  2. Why do we normalize data?
    We do this because we need to rescale data to be more comparable.
  3. Which editions of SQL Server contain SSIS?
    SQL Server from 2005 until now, Enterprise, and Standard Editions.

  1. Which components of the SSIS package execute the data transformation?
    The data transformation starts in a control-flow task called Data Flow Task. Internally, the Data Flow Task causes the data-flow engine to start and execute the data transformation...
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