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Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   Practical Data Science Cookbook, Second Edition Data pre-processing, analysis and visualization using R and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787129627
Length 434 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Anthony Ojeda Anthony Ojeda
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Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar
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ABHIJIT DASGUPTA ABHIJIT DASGUPTA
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Sean P Murphy Sean P Murphy
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Bhushan Purushottam Joshi Bhushan Purushottam Joshi
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Preface 1. Preparing Your Data Science Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Driving Visual Analysis with Automobile Data with R 3. Creating Application-Oriented Analyses Using Tax Data and Python 4. Modeling Stock Market Data 5. Visually Exploring Employment Data 6. Driving Visual Analyses with Automobile Data 7. Working with Social Graphs 8. Recommending Movies at Scale (Python) 9. Harvesting and Geolocating Twitter Data (Python) 10. Forecasting New Zealand Overseas Visitors 11. German Credit Data Analysis

Introduction


This project will introduce you to the US employment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the United States government. The BLS is the federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity and working conditions and prices in the US economy. Its mission is the collection, analysis, and dissemination of essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. In this project, we will use the aggregated annual data on employment and pay, stratified by geography and industry, from 2012, derived from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW).

This data can be downloaded as a compressed comma-separated value (CSV) file at http://www.bls.gov/cew/data/files/2012/csv/2012_annual_singlefile.zip , which contains the single file 2012.annual.singlefile.csv. This file has 15 columns and about 3.5 million rows.

The QCEW is a quarterly collection of data, via the corporate tax collection system, related to employment and wages reported...

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