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Command Line by Jeroen Janssens, published by O’Reilly Media in October 2021. Obtain, scrub, explore, and model data with Unix Power Tools. This repository contains the full text, data, and scripts used in the second edition of the book Data Science at the Command Line by Jeroen Janssens. This thoroughly revised guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can 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, author Jeroen Janssens provides a Docker image packed with over 100 Unix power tools, useful whether you work with Windows, macOS, or Linux. You’ll quickly discover why the command line is an agile, scalable, and extensible technology. Even if you’re comfortable processing data with Python or R, you’ll learn how to greatly improve your data science workflow by leveraging the command line’s power.
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- Obtain data from websites, APIs, databases, and spreadsheets
- Perform scrub operations on text, CSV, HTML, XML, and JSON files
- Explore data, compute descriptive statistics, and create visualizations
- Manage your data science workflow
- Create your own tools from one-liners and existing Python or R code
- Parallelize and distribute data-intensive pipelines
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