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You're reading from Practical Data Analysis For small businesses, analyzing the information contained in their data using open source technology could be game-changing. All you need is some basic programming and mathematical skills to do just that.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280995

Length 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

NLTK

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Hector Cuesta

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Practical Data Analysis

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Data

3. Data Visualization

4. Text Classification

5. Similarity-based Image Retrieval

6. Simulation of Stock Prices

7. Predicting Gold Prices

8. Working with Support Vector Machines

9. Modeling Infectious Disease with Cellular Automata

10. Working with Social Graphs

11. Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data

12. Data Processing and Aggregation with MongoDB

13. Working with MapReduce

14. Online Data Analysis with IPython and Wakari

Setting Up the Infrastructure

Index

Installing and running Gephi

According to the official website https://gephi.org/, Gephi is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs.

See Chapter 10, Working with Social Graph, for detailed instructions about how to use Gephi to visualize graphs.

Installing and running Gephi on Linux

First, download the Gephi 0.8.2 from the official website, https://launchpad.net/gephi/0.8/0.8.2beta/+download/gephi-0.8.2-beta.tar.gz.

Extract, open a terminal in the directory, and then type ./bin/gephi script file to start.

Installing and running Gephi on Windows

First, download the Gephi 0.8.2 from the official website, https://launchpad.net/gephi/0.8/0.8.2beta/+download/gephi-0.8.2-beta.setup.exe.

Next, we need to execute the setup.exe file (see the following screenshot) and follow the wizard.

To check that everything is installed correctly, just navigate to Start | All Programs | Gephi | Gephi 0.8.2.

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