DATA CRUNCHING SOLVE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS USING JAVA,PYTHON & MORE

by Greg Wilson

This book describes the most useful data crunching techniques, explains when you should use them, and shows how they will make your life easier. Along the way, it will introduce you to some handy, but underused, features of Java, Python, and other languages. It will also show you how to test data crunching programs and how data crunching fits into the larger software development picture.

Genres: Programming

Paperback

First published April 8, 2005

Reviews

[Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 tools necessary to get 80% of the job done. The book covers topics such as I/O-type transformations, regular expressions, XML and XSLT, SQL, and some odds and ends, including basic topics on 2's-complement arithmetic.

This book is geared towards entry to intermediate level software developers, but serves admirably as a refresher on a variety of basic techniques that should be in the toolkits of all developers. In particular, it provides an excellent review for topics that may arise in programming interviews. Definitely worth checking out.

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.