Inspecting the data

Throughout this chapter, and for many other chapters in this book, we'll be using the Incanter library (http://incanter.org/) to load, manipulate, and display data.

Incanter is a modular suite of Clojure libraries that provides statistical computing and visualization capabilities. Modeled after the extremely popular R environment for data analysis, it brings together the power of Clojure, an interactive REPL, and a set of powerful abstractions for working with data.

Each module of Incanter focuses on a specific area of functionality. For example incanter-stats contains a suite of related functions for analyzing data and producing summary statistics, while incanter-charts provides a large number of visualization capabilities. ...

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