Database Reference
In-Depth Information
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Importing Data for
Analysis
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
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Creating a new project
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Reading CSV data into Incanter datasets
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Reading JSON data into Incanter datasets
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Reading data from Excel with Incanter
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Reading data from JDBC databases
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Reading XML data into Incanter datasets
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Scraping data from tables in web pages
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Scraping textual data from web pages
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Reading RDF data
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Querying RDF data with SPARQL
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Aggregating data from different formats
Introduction
There's not much data analysis that can be done without data, so the irst step in any project
is to evaluate the data we have and the data that we need. Once we have some idea of what
we'll need, we have to igure out how to get it.
