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Practical Data Analysis

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Product type Book

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783280995

Pages 360 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Hector Cuesta

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Practical Data Analysis

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started

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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Authors (1)

Hector Cuesta

Hector Cuesta is founder and Chief Data Scientist at Dataxios, a machine intelligence research company. Holds a BA in Informatics and a M.Sc. in Computer Science. He provides consulting services for data-driven product design with experience in a variety of industries including financial services, retail, fintech, e-learning and Human Resources. He is an enthusiast of Robotics in his spare time. You can follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hmCuesta.

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