Data Wrangling with JavaScript, Paperback/Ashley Davis

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 About the Author: Ashley Davis is a software developer, entrepreneur, writer, and a stock trader. He is the creator of Data-Forge, a data transformation and analysis toolkit for JavaScript inspired by Pandas and Microsoft LINQ.