Section 1: Scala and Data Analysis Life Cycle

In this section, you will gain an insight into what data is, how it is prepared and processed, and how it is analyzed and stored. This section will also get you introduced to the Scala framework and how we use Scala with data. You will learn some basic commands in Scala. You will also understand what a data pipeline is and the tasks involved in this pipeline.

This section will contain the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Scala Overview
• Chapter 2, Data Analysis Life Cycle
• Chapter 3, Data Ingestion
• Chapter 4, Data Exploration and Visualization
• Chapter 5, Applying Statistics and Hypothesis Testing