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Processing Real-world Data Efficiently with Rust

Harness Rust's powerful data structures system and become a Rust data wizard through real-world examples and hands-on projects.

Intermediate

31 Lessons

10h

Certificate of Completion

Harness Rust's powerful data structures system and become a Rust data wizard through real-world examples and hands-on projects.

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This course includes

6 Projects

7 Assessments

170 Playgrounds

Course Overview

What You'll Learn

Course Content

Apply Your Skills

Course Overview

Rust is a fast-growing, modern programming language oriented to system programming that guarantees memory and thread safety. It enables you to eliminate many classes of bugs at compile-time. This course covers all the skills needed to work with real-world data using Rust. In this course, you’ll learn all the basics of intermediate Rust programming. You’ll discover and master the five data-related skills: data input, storage, serving data, analyzing data, and data visualization. You’ll learn to ingest data...Show More

What You'll Learn

An understanding of how to integrate Rust programs in a modern data science and data analysis workflow

Familiarity with the main five data-related skills—data input and storage, serving and analyzing data, and data visualization

Hands-on experience with intermediate to advanced Rust programming and mastering the secrets of functional programming

Hands-on experience managing real-world data using Rust

An understanding of how to integrate Rust programs in a modern data science and data analysis workflow

Course Content

Before We Begin

1 Lessons

Get familiar with using Rust for data science through practical projects and key skills.

What to Expect in This Course

Rust Data Structures

5 Lessons

Unpack the core of Rust's data structures, from arrays to advanced HashMaps and Structs.

Rust Data Structures

Assessment

Basics of Functional Programming

4 Lessons

Break apart Rust's functional programming essentials, focusing on functions, iterators, and higher-order functions.

Functions vs Closures

Iterators

Higher-order Functions: Rust's Secret Sauce

Higher-order Functions: Part II

Functional Programming in Rust

Assessment

Data Skill: Input Data

6 Lessons

Apply your skills to efficiently handle file operations, CSV, JSON, internet data, APIs, and web scraping in Rust.

Working with Files and the OS

CSV: Comma Separated Values

JSON: The de Facto Web Data Standard

Fetching Data on the Internet

Poll Data Services through APIs

The Basics of Web Scraping

Input Data with Rust

Assessment

Web Scraping: Getting Products and Prices from an E-commerce Site

Project

Data Skill: Store Data

5 Lessons

Solve problems in data storage with Redis, SQLite, SQL databases, and MongoDB using Rust.

Redis

Sqlite

Relational Databases (SQL): MySql, Postgres, SQLite

MongoDB

MongoDB: Part II

Storing Data in Rust

Assessment

Create a Simple Payroll Management System

Project

12.

Data Skill: Serve Data

3 Lessons

Tackle building robust Rust servers for CRUD operations, static content, and dynamic templating.

Server Basics

A CRUD Server

Other Data Servers

Serving Data in Rust

Assessment

Build a Server Backed Up by a Database

Project

15.

Data Skill: Analyze Data

3 Lessons

Test your understanding of analyzing data in Rust using ndarray, Polars, and SmartCore.

The Matrix and ndarray

Polars

Smartcore

Assessment on Analyze Data

Assessment

ML Basics: Classification of the Iris Data Set

Project

Machine Learning and the MNIST Digit DataSet

Project

19.

Data Skill: Dataviz and Storytelling

3 Lessons

Learn how to use Rust for data visualization, map creation, and effective data storytelling.

The Basics of Data Visualization

Maps

The Basics of Storytelling through Data with Rust

Data Viz and Storytelling in Rust

Assessment

Create Infographics in Rust

Project

22.

Some Parting Words

1 Lessons

Look at the resources and references to continue mastering Rust efficiently.

Congratulations!

Course Author

Davide Del Papa

Project

Rust Data Engineering: Building High-Performance EDA

intermediate

1 hour

Project

Rust Data Engineering: Building High-Performance EDA

intermediate

1 hour

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