Java: Data Science Made Easy

A running example

There will be many practical use cases throughout the book, sometimes a couple in each chapter. But we will also have a running example, building a search engine. This problem is interesting for a number of reasons:

• It is fun
• Business in almost any domain can benefit from a search engine
• Many businesses already have text data; often it is not used effectively, and its use can be improved
• Processing text requires a lot of effort, and it is useful to learn to do this effectively

We will try to keep it simple, yet, with this example, we will touch on all the technical parts of the data science process throughout the book:

• Data Understanding: Which data can be useful for the problem? How can we obtain this data?
• Data Preparation ...