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Published inJul 2016
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Simon Walkowiak
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Simon Walkowiak

Simon Walkowiak is a cognitive neuroscientist and a managing director of Mind Project Ltd a Big Data and Predictive Analytics consultancy based in London, United Kingdom. As a former data curator at the UK Data Service (UKDS, University of Essex) European largest socio-economic data repository, Simon has an extensive experience in processing and managing large-scale datasets such as censuses, sensor and smart meter data, telecommunication data and well-known governmental and social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, Labour Force surveys, Understanding Society, National Travel survey, and many other socio-economic datasets collected and deposited by Eurostat, World Bank, Office for National Statistics, Department of Transport, NatCen and International Energy Agency, to mention just a few. Simon has delivered numerous data science and R training courses at public institutions and international companies. He has also taught a course in Big Data Methods in R at major UK universities and at the prestigious Big Data and Analytics Summer School organized by the Institute of Analytics and Data Science (IADS).
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We began this chapter with a very gentle introduction to Relational Database Management Systems and the basics of Structured Query Language, in order to equip you with the essential skills required to manage RDBMSs on your own.

We then moved on to practical exercises that let you explore a number of techniques of connecting R with relational databases. We first presented how to query and process data locally using a SQLite database, then we thoroughly covered connectivity with MariaDB (and also MySQL, as both are very similar) installed on an Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing instance, and finally we remotely analyzed the data stored and managed in the PostgreSQL database through the Amazon Relational Database Service instance.

Throughout the sections and tutorials of this chapter, you have learned that R can be conveniently used as a tool for the processing and analysis of large, out-of-memory collection of data stored in traditional SQL-operated databases.

In the next chapter, we will...

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Published in: Jul 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786466457

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Simon Walkowiak

Simon Walkowiak is a cognitive neuroscientist and a managing director of Mind Project Ltd a Big Data and Predictive Analytics consultancy based in London, United Kingdom. As a former data curator at the UK Data Service (UKDS, University of Essex) European largest socio-economic data repository, Simon has an extensive experience in processing and managing large-scale datasets such as censuses, sensor and smart meter data, telecommunication data and well-known governmental and social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, Labour Force surveys, Understanding Society, National Travel survey, and many other socio-economic datasets collected and deposited by Eurostat, World Bank, Office for National Statistics, Department of Transport, NatCen and International Energy Agency, to mention just a few. Simon has delivered numerous data science and R training courses at public institutions and international companies. He has also taught a course in Big Data Methods in R at major UK universities and at the prestigious Big Data and Analytics Summer School organized by the Institute of Analytics and Data Science (IADS).
Read more about Simon Walkowiak