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Python: End-to-end Data Analysis

You're reading from   Python: End-to-end Data Analysis Leverage the power of Python to clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize your data

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Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394697
Length 931 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luiz Felipe Martins Luiz Felipe Martins
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Ivan Idris Ivan Idris
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Phuong Vo.T.H Phuong Vo.T.H
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Martin Czygan Martin Czygan
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Chapter 5. Web Mining, Databases, and Big Data

On the menu for this chapter are the following recipes:

  • Simulating web browsing
  • Scraping the Web
  • Dealing with non-ASCII text and HTML entities
  • Implementing association tables
  • Setting up database migration scripts
  • Adding a table column to an existing table
  • Adding indices after table creation
  • Setting up a test web server
  • Implementing a star schema with fact and dimension tables
  • Using HDFS
  • Setting up Spark
  • Clustering data with Spark

Introduction

This chapter is light on math, but it is more focused on technical topics. Technology has a lot to offer for data analysts. Databases have been around for a while, but the relational databases that most people are familiar with can be traced back to the 1970s. Edgar Codd came up with a number of ideas that later led to the creation of the relational model and SQL. Relational databases have been a dominant technology since then. In the 1980s, object-oriented programming languages caused a paradigm shift and...

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