Books  

Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python and More reviewed by 

Robert Pritchett 

Author: Greg Wilson 

Pragmatic Programmers, LLC 

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Released: April 2005 

$30 USD, $42 CND 

Pages: 208 

ISDN: 097451401 

Requirements: A desire to want to use data crunching techniques 

to solve problems. 

For anyone interested in doing data crunching or data munging. 

Strengths: Provides ways to enhance data manipulation. 

Weaknesses: None found. 

Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python and More by Greg Wilson 

shows us how to tackle conversion issues, work with XLST and transforming XML, extracting 

information from relational and SQL databases, design and building and testing programs for 

searching log files. 

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