Month: January 2013

Leave a comment Posted on January 30, 2013 Data Analysis, Development, R

Merging two data set in R based on one common column

Let’s create a new dataset using mtcars dataset and only mpg and hp column:

> cars.mpg <- subset(mtcars, select = c(mpg, hp))
 
> cars.mpg
                     mpg  hp
Mazda RX4           21.0 110
Mazda RX4 Wag       21.0 110
Datsun 710          22.8  93
Hornet 4 Drive      21.4 110
Hornet Sportabout   18.7 175
Valiant             18.1 105
Duster 360          14.3 245
Merc 240D           24.4  62
Merc 230            22.8  95
Merc 280            19.2 123
Merc 280C           17.8 123
Merc 450SE          16.4 180
Merc 450SL          17.3 180
Merc 450SLC         15.2 180
…………..

Let’s create another dataset using mtcars dataset and only hp and cyl column:

> cars.cyl <- subset(mtcars, select = c(hp,cyl))
> cars.cyl
                     hp cyl
Mazda RX4           110   6
Mazda RX4 Wag       110   6
Datsun 710           93   4
Hornet 4 Drive      110   6
Hornet Sportabout   175   8
Valiant             105   6
Duster 360          245   8
Merc 240D            62   4
Merc 230             95   4
Merc 280            123   6
Merc 280C           123   6
Merc 450SE          180   8
Merc 450SL          180   8
Merc 450SLC         180   8
…………………..

Now we can merge both dataset based on common column hp as below:

 
> merge.ds <- merge(cars.mpg, cars.cyl, by="hp")
> merge.ds
    hp  mpg cyl
1   52 30.4   4
2   62 24.4   4
3   65 33.9   4
4   66 32.4   4
5   66 32.4   4
6   66 27.3   4
7   66 27.3   4
8   91 26.0   4
9   93 22.8   4
10  95 22.8   4
11  97 21.5   4
12 105 18.1   6
13 109 21.4   4
14 110 21.0   6
15 110 21.0   6
16 110 21.0   6
17 110 21.0   6
18 110 21.0   6
19 110 21.0   6
20 110 21.4   6
21 110 21.4   6
22 110 21.4   6
23 113 30.4   4
24 123 17.8   6
25 123 17.8   6
26 123 19.2   6
27 123 19.2   6
28 150 15.2   8
29 150 15.2   8
30 150 15.5   8
31 150 15.5   8
32 175 18.7   8
33 175 18.7   6
34 175 18.7   8
35 175 19.7   8
36 175 19.7   6
37 175 19.7   8
38 175 19.2   8
39 175 19.2   6
40 175 19.2   8
41 180 16.4   8
42 180 16.4   8
43 180 16.4   8
44 180 17.3   8
45 180 17.3   8
46 180 17.3   8
47 180 15.2   8
48 180 15.2   8
49 180 15.2   8
50 205 10.4   8
51 215 10.4   8
52 230 14.7   8
53 245 14.3   8
54 245 14.3   8
55 245 13.3   8
56 245 13.3   8
57 264 15.8   8
58 335 15.0   8

Why you see total 58 merged rows when there were only 32 rows in original data sets?

This is because "merge is a generic function whose principal method is for data frames: the default method coerces its arguments to data frames and calls the "data.frame" method."
Learn more by calling
?merge

Leave a comment Posted on January 30, 2013 Data Analysis, Development, R

Working with dataset in R and using subset to work on dataset

Let’s load built in data set

>Library(datasets)

Let’s access one of the dataset name mtcars:

>mtcars

mpg cyl disp hp drat wt qsec vs am gear carb

Mazda RX4 21.0 6 160.0 110 3.90 2.620 16.46 0 1 4 4

Mazda RX4 Wag 21.0 6 160.0 110 3.90 2.875 17.02 0 1 4 4

Datsun 710 22.8 4 108.0 93 3.85 2.320 18.61 1 1 4 1

Hornet 4 Drive 21.4 6 258.0 110 3.08 3.215 19.44 1 0 3 1

Hornet Sportabout 18.7 8 360.0 175 3.15 3.440 17.02 0 0 3 2

Valiant 18.1 6 225.0 105 2.76 3.460 20.22 1 0 3 1

Duster 360 14.3 8 360.0 245 3.21 3.570 15.84 0 0 3 4

Merc 240D 24.4 4 146.7 62 3.69 3.190 20.00 1 0 4 2

Merc 230 22.8 4 140.8 95 3.92 3.150 22.90 1 0 4 2

Merc 280 19.2 6 167.6 123 3.92 3.440 18.30 1 0 4 4

Merc 280C 17.8 6 167.6 123 3.92 3.440 18.90 1 0 4 4

Merc 450SE 16.4 8 275.8 180 3.07 4.070 17.40 0 0 3 3

Merc 450SL 17.3 8 275.8 180 3.07 3.730 17.60 0 0 3 3

Merc 450SLC 15.2 8 275.8 180 3.07 3.780 18.00 0 0 3 3

Cadillac Fleetwood 10.4 8 472.0 205 2.93 5.250 17.98 0 0 3 4

Lincoln Continental 10.4 8 460.0 215 3.00 5.424 17.82 0 0 3 4

Chrysler Imperial 14.7 8 440.0 230 3.23 5.345 17.42 0 0 3 4

Fiat 128 32.4 4 78.7 66 4.08 2.200 19.47 1 1 4 1

Honda Civic 30.4 4 75.7 52 4.93 1.615 18.52 1 1 4 2

Toyota Corolla 33.9 4 71.1 65 4.22 1.835 19.90 1 1 4 1

Toyota Corona 21.5 4 120.1 97 3.70 2.465 20.01 1 0 3 1

Dodge Challenger 15.5 8 318.0 150 2.76 3.520 16.87 0 0 3 2

AMC Javelin 15.2 8 304.0 150 3.15 3.435 17.30 0 0 3 2

Camaro Z28 13.3 8 350.0 245 3.73 3.840 15.41 0 0 3 4

Pontiac Firebird 19.2 8 400.0 175 3.08 3.845 17.05 0 0 3 2

Fiat X1-9 27.3 4 79.0 66 4.08 1.935 18.90 1 1 4 1

Porsche 914-2 26.0 4 120.3 91 4.43 2.140 16.70 0 1 5 2

Lotus Europa 30.4 4 95.1 113 3.77 1.513 16.90 1 1 5 2

Ford Pantera L 15.8 8 351.0 264 4.22 3.170 14.50 0 1 5 4

Ferrari Dino 19.7 6 145.0 175 3.62 2.770 15.50 0 1 5 6

Maserati Bora 15.0 8 301.0 335 3.54 3.570 14.60 0 1 5 8

Volvo 142E 21.4 4 121.0 109 4.11 2.780 18.60 1 1 4 2

So what is this data set? Running str(_dataset_name) will tell you more about it:

> str(mtcars)
'data.frame':  32 obs. of  11 variables:
 $ mpg : num  21 21 22.8 21.4 18.7 18.1 14.3 24.4 22.8 19.2 ...
 $ cyl : num  6 6 4 6 8 6 8 4 4 6 ...
 $ disp: num  160 160 108 258 360 ...
 $ hp  : num  110 110 93 110 175 105 245 62 95 123 ...
 $ drat: num  3.9 3.9 3.85 3.08 3.15 2.76 3.21 3.69 3.92 3.92 ...
 $ wt  : num  2.62 2.88 2.32 3.21 3.44 ...
 $ qsec: num  16.5 17 18.6 19.4 17 ...
 $ vs  : num  0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 ...
 $ am  : num  1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
 $ gear: num  4 4 4 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 ...
 $ carb: num  4 4 1 1 2 1 4 2 2 4 ...

Let’s see the top of the data frame using head

> head(mtcars)
                   mpg cyl disp  hp drat    wt  qsec vs am gear carb
Mazda RX4         21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46  0  1    4    4
Mazda RX4 Wag     21.0   6  160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02  0  1    4    4
Datsun 710        22.8   4  108  93 3.85 2.320 18.61  1  1    4    1
Hornet 4 Drive    21.4   6  258 110 3.08 3.215 19.44  1  0    3    1
Hornet Sportabout 18.7   8  360 175 3.15 3.440 17.02  0  0    3    2
Valiant           18.1   6  225 105 2.76 3.460 20.22  1  0    3    1

You can also see the tail as well:

> tail(mtcars)
                mpg cyl  disp  hp drat    wt qsec vs am gear carb
Porsche 914-2  26.0   4 120.3  91 4.43 2.140 16.7  0  1    5    2
Lotus Europa   30.4   4  95.1 113 3.77 1.513 16.9  1  1    5    2
Ford Pantera L 15.8   8 351.0 264 4.22 3.170 14.5  0  1    5    4
Ferrari Dino   19.7   6 145.0 175 3.62 2.770 15.5  0  1    5    6
Maserati Bora  15.0   8 301.0 335 3.54 3.570 14.6  0  1    5    8
Volvo 142E     21.4   4 121.0 109 4.11 2.780 18.6  1  1    4    2

So how many rows are in this dataset?

> nrow(mtcars)
[1] 32

So how many columns are in this dataset?

> ncol(mtcars)
[1] 11

Ok can we get the name of column headers? Sure

> names(mtcars)
 [1] "mpg"  "cyl"  "disp" "hp"   "drat" "wt"   "qsec" "vs"   "am"   "gear" "carb"

So let’s see the summary for our dataset:

> summary(mtcars)

      mpg             cyl             disp             hp             drat     
 Min.   :10.40   Min.   :4.000   Min.   : 71.1   Min.   : 52.0   Min.   :2.760 
 1st Qu.:15.43   1st Qu.:4.000   1st Qu.:120.8   1st Qu.: 96.5   1st Qu.:3.080 
 Median :19.20   Median :6.000   Median :196.3   Median :123.0   Median :3.695 
 Mean   :20.09   Mean   :6.188   Mean   :230.7   Mean   :146.7   Mean   :3.597 
 3rd Qu.:22.80   3rd Qu.:8.000   3rd Qu.:326.0   3rd Qu.:180.0   3rd Qu.:3.920 
 Max.   :33.90   Max.   :8.000   Max.   :472.0   Max.   :335.0   Max.   :4.930 
       wt             qsec             vs               am       
 Min.   :1.513   Min.   :14.50   Min.   :0.0000   Min.   :0.0000 
 1st Qu.:2.581   1st Qu.:16.89   1st Qu.:0.0000   1st Qu.:0.0000 
 Median :3.325   Median :17.71   Median :0.0000   Median :0.0000 
 Mean   :3.217   Mean   :17.85   Mean   :0.4375   Mean   :0.4062 
 3rd Qu.:3.610   3rd Qu.:18.90   3rd Qu.:1.0000   3rd Qu.:1.0000 
 Max.   :5.424   Max.   :22.90   Max.   :1.0000   Max.   :1.0000 
      gear            carb     
 Min.   :3.000   Min.   :1.000 
 1st Qu.:3.000   1st Qu.:2.000 
 Median :4.000   Median :2.000 
 Mean   :3.688   Mean   :2.812 
 3rd Qu.:4.000   3rd Qu.:4.000 
 Max.   :5.000   Max.   :8.000

As you can see above the summary give you the mean, media, max and other values for each column.

Using Subset with Dataset in R

How to list data frame with a few columns? Sure we will be using subset() for this:

Subset(dataframe, condition, format)

For example the following subset will show all the rows in mtcrs but only mpg column:

> subset(mtcars, select = c(mpg))
                     mpg
Mazda RX4           21.0
Mazda RX4 Wag       21.0
Datsun 710          22.8
Hornet 4 Drive      21.4
Hornet Sportabout   18.7
Valiant             18.1
Duster 360          14.3
Merc 240D           24.4
Merc 230            22.8
Merc 280            19.2
Merc 280C           17.8
Merc 450SE          16.4
Merc 450SL          17.3
Merc 450SLC         15.2
Cadillac Fleetwood  10.4
Lincoln Continental 10.4
Chrysler Imperial   14.7
Fiat 128            32.4
Honda Civic         30.4
Toyota Corolla      33.9
Toyota Corona       21.5
Dodge Challenger    15.5
AMC Javelin         15.2
Camaro Z28          13.3
Pontiac Firebird    19.2
Fiat X1-9           27.3
Porsche 914-2       26.0
Lotus Europa        30.4
Ford Pantera L      15.8
Ferrari Dino        19.7
Maserati Bora       15.0
Volvo 142E          21.4

Now what if we want to see the list of cars which have mpg above 20 along with mpg and hp column:

> subset(mtcars, mpg > 20, select = c(mpg, hp))
                mpg  hp
Mazda RX4      21.0 110
Mazda RX4 Wag  21.0 110
Datsun 710     22.8  93
Hornet 4 Drive 21.4 110
Merc 240D      24.4  62
Merc 230       22.8  95
Fiat 128       32.4  66
Honda Civic    30.4  52
Toyota Corolla 33.9  65
Toyota Corona  21.5  97
Fiat X1-9      27.3  66
Porsche 914-2  26.0  91
Lotus Europa   30.4 113
Volvo 142E     21.4 109

We can also call subset within subset.

For example we need to get a list of cars with HP above 100 and mpg above 20.

> subset(subset(mtcars, mpg > 20, select = c(mpg, hp)),hp >= 100)
                mpg  hp
Mazda RX4      21.0 110
Mazda RX4 Wag  21.0 110
Hornet 4 Drive 21.4 110
Lotus Europa   30.4 113
Volvo 142E     21.4 109

Note: following will not work as condition will not match and you will see a full list of cars with mpg and hp column
> subset(mtcars, mpg > 20 && hp >= 100, select = c(mpg, hp))

You can also use subset to show specific columns
> subset(mtcars[1:3])
                     mpg cyl  disp
Mazda RX4           21.0   6 160.0
Mazda RX4 Wag       21.0   6 160.0
Datsun 710          22.8   4 108.0
Hornet 4 Drive      21.4   6 258.0
Hornet Sportabout   18.7   8 360.0

…..

Or you can defined the columns name as below:

> subset(mtcars[c("mpg", “cyl”, "hp")])

Leave a comment Posted on January 19, 2013 R

Listing base datasets in R and loading as Data Frame

> library(help=”datasets”)

Description:

Package:       datasets
Version:       2.15.2
Priority:      base
Title:         The R Datasets Package
Author:        R Core Team and contributors worldwide
Maintainer:    R Core Team <R-core@r-project.org>
Description:   Base R datasets
License:       Part of R 2.15.2
Built:         R 2.15.2; ; 2012-10-26 16:15:19 UTC; unix

Index:

AirPassengers           Monthly Airline Passenger Numbers 1949-1960
BJsales                 Sales Data with Leading Indicator
BOD                     Biochemical Oxygen Demand
CO2                     Carbon Dioxide Uptake in Grass Plants
ChickWeight             Weight versus age of chicks on different diets
DNase                   Elisa assay of DNase
EuStockMarkets          Daily Closing Prices of Major European Stock
                        Indices, 1991-1998
Formaldehyde            Determination of Formaldehyde
HairEyeColor            Hair and Eye Color of Statistics Students
Harman23.cor            Harman Example 2.3
Harman74.cor            Harman Example 7.4
Indometh                Pharmacokinetics of Indomethacin
InsectSprays            Effectiveness of Insect Sprays
JohnsonJohnson          Quarterly Earnings per Johnson & Johnson Share
LakeHuron               Level of Lake Huron 1875-1972
LifeCycleSavings        Intercountry Life-Cycle Savings Data
Loblolly                Growth of Loblolly pine trees
Nile                    Flow of the River Nile
Orange                  Growth of Orange Trees
OrchardSprays           Potency of Orchard Sprays
PlantGrowth             Results from an Experiment on Plant Growth
Puromycin               Reaction Velocity of an Enzymatic Reaction
Theoph                  Pharmacokinetics of Theophylline
Titanic                 Survival of passengers on the Titanic
ToothGrowth             The Effect of Vitamin C on Tooth Growth in
                        Guinea Pigs
UCBAdmissions           Student Admissions at UC Berkeley
UKDriverDeaths          Road Casualties in Great Britain 1969-84
UKLungDeaths            Monthly Deaths from Lung Diseases in the UK
UKgas                   UK Quarterly Gas Consumption
USAccDeaths             Accidental Deaths in the US 1973-1978
USArrests               Violent Crime Rates by US State
USJudgeRatings          Lawyers' Ratings of State Judges in the US
                        Superior Court
USPersonalExpenditure   Personal Expenditure Data
VADeaths                Death Rates in Virginia (1940)
WWWusage                Internet Usage per Minute
WorldPhones             The World's Telephones
ability.cov             Ability and Intelligence Tests
airmiles                Passenger Miles on Commercial US Airlines,
                        1937-1960
airquality              New York Air Quality Measurements
anscombe                Anscombe's Quartet of 'Identical' Simple Linear
                        Regressions
attenu                  The Joyner-Boore Attenuation Data
attitude                The Chatterjee-Price Attitude Data
austres                 Quarterly Time Series of the Number of
                        Australian Residents
beavers                 Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers
cars                    Speed and Stopping Distances of Cars
chickwts                Chicken Weights by Feed Type
co2                     Mauna Loa Atmospheric CO2 Concentration
crimtab                 Student's 3000 Criminals Data
datasets-package        The R Datasets Package
discoveries             Yearly Numbers of Important Discoveries
esoph                   Smoking, Alcohol and (O)esophageal Cancer
euro                    Conversion Rates of Euro Currencies
eurodist                Distances Between European Cities
faithful                Old Faithful Geyser Data
freeny                  Freeny's Revenue Data
infert                  Infertility after Spontaneous and Induced
                        Abortion
iris                    Edgar Anderson's Iris Data
islands                 Areas of the World's Major Landmasses
lh                      Luteinizing Hormone in Blood Samples
longley                 Longley's Economic Regression Data
lynx                    Annual Canadian Lynx trappings 1821-1934
morley                  Michelson Speed of Light Data
mtcars                  Motor Trend Car Road Tests
nhtemp                  Average Yearly Temperatures in New Haven
nottem                  Average Monthly Temperatures at Nottingham,
                        1920-1939
occupationalStatus      Occupational Status of Fathers and their Sons
precip                  Annual Precipitation in US Cities
presidents              Quarterly Approval Ratings of US Presidents
pressure                Vapor Pressure of Mercury as a Function of
                        Temperature
quakes                  Locations of Earthquakes off Fiji
randu                   Random Numbers from Congruential Generator
                        RANDU
rivers                  Lengths of Major North American Rivers
rock                    Measurements on Petroleum Rock Samples
sleep                   Student's Sleep Data
stackloss               Brownlee's Stack Loss Plant Data
state                   US State Facts and Figures
sunspot.month           Monthly Sunspot Data, 1749-1997
sunspot.year            Yearly Sunspot Data, 1700-1988
sunspots                Monthly Sunspot Numbers, 1749-1983
swiss                   Swiss Fertility and Socioeconomic Indicators
                        (1888) Data
treering                Yearly Treering Data, -6000-1979
trees                   Girth, Height and Volume for Black Cherry Trees
uspop                   Populations Recorded by the US Census
volcano                 Topographic Information on Auckland's Maunga
                        Whau Volcano
warpbreaks              The Number of Breaks in Yarn during Weaving
women                   Average Heights and Weights for American Women

Learn More about Dataset:

> str(iris)

‘data.frame’: 150 obs. of 5 variables:
$ Sepal.Length: num 5.1 4.9 4.7 4.6 5 5.4 4.6 5 4.4 4.9 …
$ Sepal.Width : num 3.5 3 3.2 3.1 3.6 3.9 3.4 3.4 2.9 3.1 …
$ Petal.Length: num 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.7 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.5 …
$ Petal.Width : num 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 …
$ Species : Factor w/ 3 levels “setosa”,”versicolor”,..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 …

Note: Str will tell you more about dataset i.e. total columns (variables) and total rows (objects)

> summary(iris)

Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
Min. :4.300 Min. :2.000 Min. :1.000 Min. :0.100 setosa :50
1st Qu.:5.100 1st Qu.:2.800 1st Qu.:1.600 1st Qu.:0.300 versicolor:50
Median :5.800 Median :3.000 Median :4.350 Median :1.300 virginica :50
Mean :5.843 Mean :3.057 Mean :3.758 Mean :1.199
3rd Qu.:6.400 3rd Qu.:3.300 3rd Qu.:5.100 3rd Qu.:1.800
Max. :7.900 Max. :4.400 Max. :6.900 Max. :2.500

Note: Summary will tell you about statistical details related to dataset i.e. mean, median etc. Both str and summary will help you to learn more about dataset.


Loading a dataset into Data FRame

> dd <- data.frame(iris)

As you can see below that DD is now a data frame,in which the contents are loaded from iris dataset

> str(dd)
‘data.frame’: 150 obs. of 5 variables:
$ Sepal.Length: num 5.1 4.9 4.7 4.6 5 5.4 4.6 5 4.4 4.9 …
$ Sepal.Width : num 3.5 3 3.2 3.1 3.6 3.9 3.4 3.4 2.9 3.1 …
$ Petal.Length: num 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.7 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.5 …
$ Petal.Width : num 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 …
$ Species : Factor w/ 3 levels “setosa”,”versicolor”,..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 …

If you are using RStudio, you can use view(dataset_name) to view the dataset in GUI as below:

>data(volcano)

> view(volcano)

Leave a comment Posted on January 1, 2013 Uncategorized

ABC of Data Science

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my readers!!

A: ACID – Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability
B: Big Data – Volume, Velocity, Variety
C: Columnar (or Column-Oriented) Database
D: Data Warehousing – Relevant and very useful
E: ETL – Extract, transform and load
F: Flume – A framework for populating Hadoop with data
G: Geospatial Analysis – A picture worth 1,000 words or more
H: Hadoop, HDFS, HBASE – Do you really want to know?
I: In-Memory Database – A new definition of superfast access
J: Java – Hadoop gave biggest push in last years to stay in enterprise market
K: Kafka – High-throughput, distributed messaging system originally developed at LinkedIn
L: Latency – Low Latency and High Latency
M: Map/Reduce – MapReduce
N: NoSQL Databases – No SQL Database or Not Only SQL
O: Oozie – Open-source workflow engine managing Hadoop job processing
P: Pig – Platform for analyzing huge data sets
Q: Quantitative Data Analysis
R: Relational Database – Still relevant and will be for some time
S: Sharding (Database Partitioning) and Sqoop (SQL Database to Hadoop)
T: Text Analysis – Larger the information, more needed analysis
U: Unstructured Data – Growing faster than speed of thoughts
V: Visualization – Important to keep the information relevant
W: Whirr – Big Data Cloud Services i.e. Hadoop distributions by cloud vendors
X: XML – Still eXtensible and no Introduction needed
Y: Yottabyte – Equal to 1,000 exabytes, 1 million petabytes and 1 billion terabytes
Z: Zookeeper – Help managing Hadoop nodes across a distributed network