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Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.
by
Greg Wilson
Every day, all around the world, programmers have to recycle legacy data, translate from one vendor's proprietary format into another's, check that configuration files are internally consistent, and search through web logs to see how many people have downloaded the latest release of their product. This kind of "data crunching," may not be glamorous, but knowing how to do i
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Paperback, 176 pages
Published
April 8th 2005
by Pragmatic Bookshelf
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This book is an pleasant, concise review of some basic tools for getting various things done with data. Mostly it is about trying to take data (e.g., in the form of some formatted text files) and reformatting it, manipulating it, or performing some querying on it. The book is a kind of tapas of various techniques and languages, emphasizing Java and Python examples for coding (it assumes some familiarity with these languages and provides nice code snippets) and concentrates on the 20% of the tool
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I was a bit disappointed by how much of the content of this book I already knew before reading it, but if you're not used to python and bash, it's an excellent read.
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