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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 OpenRefine

According to the official website http://openrefine.org/, OpenRefine (ex-Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data, cleaning it, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases such as Freebase.

See Chapter 3, Data Visualization, for detailed instructions about how to clean, normalize, and export data using OpenRefine.

Tip

In order to run OpenRefine on Windows or Linux, you need to have installed either Java Standard Edition or OpenJDK on the computer.

You can download the latest version of JSE from the official website, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/.

Installing and running OpenRefine on Linux

First, download the OpenRefine 2.5 from the official website, http://google-refine.googlecode.com/files/google-refine-2.5-r2407.tar.gz.

Extract, open a terminal in the directory, then type ./refine to start.

Installing and running OpenRefine on Windows

First, download the OpenRefine 2.5 from the official website, http://google-refine.googlecode.com/files/google-refine-2.5-r2407.zip.

Unzip, and double-click on google-refine.exe.

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