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Gain insights into data processing using Bash, sed, awk, and RegEx. Explore sorting, searching, replacing, and optimizing data tasks interactively with animated videos, projects, quizzes, and tasks.

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2500+ students have taken this innovative project-based data learning course (includes video lectures). It demonstrates the use of Bash shell (Bash, sed and awk including RegEx) in processing textual data. It can help to learn to sort, search, match, replace, clean and optimize various aspects of data with Bash Shell. The target audience (students, researchers, scientists, journalists, data miners, developers) didn't have to go through any tough learning curve. This course also should have helped RedHat, SuSE and Ubuntu Linux learners and Data Science enthusiasts. Regularly updated, new projects to come! - Learn Bash commands interactively - Projects with own stories and conclusive decisions - Animated video lectures (for visual learners) - Demonstrations - Quizzes - Learning tasks Bloom's taxonomy (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) in developing your Linux skills. Learn Scientific Programming! scientificprogramming.io

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71 Lessons3 Quizzes

Course Introduction

2 Lessons

Get familiar with using Bash for efficient data manipulation and foundational scripting skills.

Introduction

What is Bash?

Project 1: Analyzing the 'US News' University Ranking Data

9 Lessons

Get started with analyzing university ranking data using essential Bash commands.

Unirank: Data Preview (head, pipe and csvlook)

Find the colleges in the ranklist (grep, pipe and wc)

Finding the percent of colleges in the ranklist (wc, grep)

Listing the Institutes from a given state (grep)

Finding the number of Institutes from each state

Finding the correlation between university tuition and ranks

Project demonstration

Project Summary

Test your skills

Project 2: Facebook Data Mining

7 Lessons

Go hands-on with mining Facebook data using Bash commands for insightful analysis.

FB: Data Preview (csvstat, csvcut, head, cat)

Finding the number of status entry (csvcut, sort, uniq)

Find the most popular status entry (awk, sort, cat, csvcut, head)

Finding the most popular entry (Bash function)

Project demonstration

Project Summary

Test your skills

Project 3: Australian Cities Crime Statistics

9 Lessons

Break down the steps to analyze Australian cities' crime stats using Bash commands.

AU Crime Stats: Introduction

Data Preview

Row and Columns Statistics (sed, wc, head, cat)

Finding the top most crime in the whole country (sort, tail, awk)

Finding the top most crime per city (csvcut, sort, tail, awk)

Finding the best city in Australia! (Bash Shell Script)

Prject demonstration

Project Summary

Test your skills

Project 4: Shakespearean-era plays and poems data mining

5 Lessons

Solve problems in analyzing Shakespearean texts using advanced Bash commands and data mining techniques.

Plays and Poems: Data Preview (cat, cut, head and csvlook)

Counting the Plays and Poems (head, sed, grep, wc)

Finding plays/poems by each author (sed, sort, uniq, head)

Finding the most frequent words by Shakespeare

Project Summary

Bash Tutorials

11 Lessons

Investigate Bash scripting essentials from basics, variables, and command execution to redirections and loops.

Hello! Bash

Bash variables and functions

Bash command execution and passing arguments

Bash meta characters

Bash quotation basics

Bash read and store user input

Bash redirections

Bash conditional statements

Bash `loop` statements

Bash arithmetic

Bash arrays

REGEX Tutorials

7 Lessons

Analyze regex fundamentals, BRE and ERE syntax, character classes, lookarounds, atomic groups, and Bash regex usage.

Hello! RegEx

Basic Regular Expressions (BRE)

Extended Regular Expressions (ERE)

REGEX character classes

REGEX look arounds

REGEX atomic groups `(?>)`

How to use REGEX in Bash shell scripting?

AWK Tutorials

4 Lessons

Get familiar with AWK's text processing capabilities, variables, functions, and practical examples.

Hello! AWK

AWK Built-in Variables

AWK built-in functions

AWK useful examples

SED, GREP and Find Tutorials

6 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of powerful text-processing and search tools: SED, GREP, and Find.

Hello! SED - Stream Editor

SED substitutions

SED and regular expressions

SED delete, print and grouping

Hello! GREP

Hello! Find command

10.

Beyond the Text Files! Enter into the Big Data Landscape - Concepts

10 Lessons

Examine key technologies in Hadoop's Big Data landscape, including HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and more.

HDFS - Hadoop Distributed File System

Map Reduce

YARN - Yet Another Resource Negotiator!

Pig

Big Data file formats

11.

Conclusion

1 Lessons

Enhance your skills in data science tools, practical applications, and further learning resources.

Conclusion and References

Certificate of Completion

Showcase your accomplishment by sharing your certificate of completion.

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