Data Science at the Command Line
Jeroen Janssenscan help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You’ll learn how to combine small, yet powerful, command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data.
To get you started—whether you’re on Windows, OS X, or Linux—author
Jeroen Janssens has developed the Data Science Toolbox, an easy-to-install virtual environment packed with over 80 command-line tools.
Discover why the command line is an agile, scalable, and extensible
technology. Even if you’re already comfortable processing data with, say, Python or R, you’ll greatly improve your data science workflow by also leveraging the power of the command line.
• Obtain data from websites, APIs, databases, and spreadsheets
• Perform scrub operations on text, CSV, HTML/XML, and JSON
• Explore data, compute descriptive statistics, and create
visualizations
• Manage your data science workflow
• Create reusable command-line tools from one-liners and
existing Python or R code
• Parallelize and distribute data-intensive pipelines
• Model data with dimensionality reduction, clustering,
regression, and classification algorithms