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Big Data Analysis with Python

You're reading from   Big Data Analysis with Python Combine Spark and Python to unlock the powers of parallel computing and machine learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789955286
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ivan Marin Ivan Marin
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Ankit Shukla Ankit Shukla
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Big Data Analysis with Python
Preface
1. The Python Data Science Stack 2. Statistical Visualizations FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Big Data Frameworks 4. Diving Deeper with Spark 5. Handling Missing Values and Correlation Analysis 6. Exploratory Data Analysis 7. Reproducibility in Big Data Analysis 8. Creating a Full Analysis Report Appendix

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In this chapter, we learned how to define a business problem from a data science perspective through a well-defined, structured approach. We started by understanding how to approach a business problem, how to gather the requirements from stakeholders and business experts, and how to define the business problem by developing an initial hypothesis.

Once the business problem was defined with data pipelines and workflows, we looked into understanding how to start the analysis on the gathered data in order to generate the KPIs and carry out descriptive analytics to identify the key trends and patterns in the historical data through various visualization techniques.

We also learned how a data science project life cycle is structured, from defining the business problem to various pre-processing techniques and model development. In the next chapter, we will be learning how to implement the concept of high reproducibility on a Jupyter notebook, and its importance in development.

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