Gain insights into Rust for real-world data, delving into data input, storage, analysis, and visualization. Explore web scraping, SQL, NoSQL databases, and machine learning with Rust.

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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 from various formats, like CSV, JSON, web APIs, and web scraping. You’ll also learn to store the data using Redis, an SQL server, or a NoSQL database like MongoDB. Finally, you will learn how to present your data in meaningful visualizations, web maps, and reports. 

After taking this course, you’ll be able to approach data using Rust with confidence. You’ll be able to manage SQLite, ORM SQL, and NoSQL databases in Rust. You’ll learn the basics of web scraping, data analysis, and machine learning in Rust.

Processing Real-world Data Efficiently with Rust

When new programmers with experiences in other languages begin using Rust, they may be thrown off by the fact that Rust has something like object-oriented programming (OOP)—though it isn’t actually OOP. In fact, Rust leans more towards functional programming (FP), rather than OOP.


Functions are present in all programming languages. However, we’ll focus on Rust’s peculiarities, rather than functions in general.
First, the bodies of Rust functions contain instructions and statements, but they can optionally end just with a statement. If they do, the statement is taken as the return of the function.
The examples below are all valid functions:


fn five() -> i32 {
  let x = 3;
  x + 2
}

fn six() -> i32 {
  6
}

fn seven(x: i32) -> i32 {
  x - x + 7
}

println!("Function five: {}", five());
println!("Function six: {}", six());
println!("Function seven: {}", seven(5));

Rust has a `return` keyword, but most rustaceans ignore this in favor of using the return statement.


Get introduced to functions, closures, and the essence of functional programming.


Functions vs Closures

Get introduced to functions, closures, and the essence of functional programming.

Before We Begin

Rust Data Structures

Rust Data Structures

Basics of Functional Programming

Functional Programming in Rust

Data Skill: Input Data

Input Data with Rust

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

Data Skill: Store Data

Storing Data in Rust

Create a Simple Payroll Management System

Data Skill: Serve Data

Serving Data in Rust

Build a Server Backed Up by a Database

Data Skill: Analyze Data

Assessment on Analyze Data

ML Basics: Classification of the Iris Data Set

Machine Learning and the MNIST Digit DataSet

Data Skill: Dataviz and Storytelling

Data Viz and Storytelling in Rust

Create Infographics in Rust

Some Parting Words

Functions vs Closures