1st Edition
by Ashley Davis (Author)
Summary
Data Wrangling with JavaScript
is hands-on guide that will teach you how to create a JavaScript-based
data processing pipeline, handle common and exotic data, and master
practical troubleshooting strategies.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Why
not handle your data analysis in JavaScript? Modern libraries and data
handling techniques mean you can collect, clean, process, store,
visualize, and present web application data while enjoying the
efficiency of a single-language pipeline and data-centric web
applications that stay in JavaScript end to end.
About the Book
Data Wrangling with JavaScript
promotes JavaScript to the center of the data analysis stage! With this
hands-on guide, you'll create a JavaScript-based data processing
pipeline, handle common and exotic data, and master practical
troubleshooting strategies. You'll also build interactive visualizations
and deploy your apps to production. Each valuable chapter provides a
new component for your reusable data wrangling toolkit.
What's inside
- Establishing a data pipeline
- Acquisition, storage, and retrieval
- Handling unusual data sets
- Cleaning and preparing raw dataInteractive visualizations with D3
About the Reader
Written for intermediate JavaScript developers. No data analysis experience required.
About the Author
Ashley Davis
is a software developer, entrepreneur, author, and the creator of
Data-Forge and Data-Forge Notebook, software for data transformation,
analysis, and visualization in JavaScript.
Table of Contents
- Getting started: establishing your data pipeline
- Getting started with Node.js
- Acquisition, storage, and retrieval
- Working with unusual data
- Exploratory coding
- Clean and prepare
- Dealing with huge data files
- Working with a mountain of data
- Practical data analysis
- Browser-based visualization
- Server-side visualization
- Live data
- Advanced visualization with D3
- Getting to production