Clojure for Data Science

Inspecting the data

The first task when confronted with a new dataset is to study it to ensure that we understand what it contains.

The all-london-2012-athletes.xlsx file is small enough that it's been provided with the sample code for this chapter. We can inspect the data with Incanter, as we did in Chapter 1, Statistics using the incanter.excel/read-xls and incanter.core/view functions:

(ns cljds.ch3.examples
  (:require [incanter.charts :as c]
            [incanter.core :as i]
            [incanter.excel :as xls]
            [incanter.stats :as s]))

(defn athlete-data []
  (-> (io/resource "all-london-2012-athletes.xlsx")
      (str)
      (xls/read-xls)))

(defn ex-3-1 []
  (i/view (athlete-data)))

If you run this code (either in the REPL or on the command line with lein run –e 3.1), you should see ...