With a subtitle of Building Full-Stack Data Analytics Applications with Spark,  the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, shows how to use the Agile Data Science development methodology to build data applications with Python, Apache Spark, Kafka, and other tools.Author Russell Jurney demonstrates how to compose a data platform for building, deploying, and refining analytics applications with Apache Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, d3.js, scikit-learn, and Apache Airflow.

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You’ll learn an iterative approach that lets you quickly change the kind of analysis you’re doing, depending on what the data is telling you. Publish data science work as a web application, and affect meaningful change in your organization.

Author: Russell Jurney
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date: June 2017
Pages: 352
ISBN: 978-1491960110
Print: 1491960116
Kindle: B072MKL34K
Audience: Data scientists
Level: Intermediate

• Build value from your data in a series of agile sprints, using the data-value pyramid
• Extract features for statistical models from a single dataset
• Visualize data with charts, and expose different aspects through interactive reports
• Use historical data to predict the future via classification and regression
• Translate predictions into actions
• Get feedback from users after each sprint to keep your project on track

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