Название: Data Analytics Made Accessible: 2020 edition
Автор: Anil K. Maheshwari, Ph.D.
Издательство: Amazon.com Services LLC
Год: 2020
Страниц: 344
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 42.8 MB

Data Science continues to be the hottest discipline, along with Artificial Intelligence, as a new decade emerges. This book fills the need for a concise and conversational book on the hot and growing field of Data Science. Easy to read and informative, this lucid and constantly updated book covers everything important, with concrete examples, and invites the reader to join this field. University of Texas calls it #1 read for Data Analysts. The chapters in the book are organized for a typical one-semester course. There is also a running case study across the chapters as exercises. This book is designed to provide a student with the intuition behind this evolving area, along with a solid toolset of the major data mining techniques and platforms. Finally, it includes a tutorial for R. The book also includes a short tutorial on Python, another very popular high-level general-purpose programming language.

The 2019 edition contained expanded primers on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science careers, and a full tutorial on Python. The 2020 edition contains a new chapter on Data Ownership and Privacy, as these issues have become increasingly important.

The book has proved very popular throughout the world. Dozens of universities around the world have adopted it as a textbook for their courses. Students across a variety of academic disciplines, including business, computer science, statistics, engineering, and others attracted to the idea of discovering new insights and ideas from data can use this as a textbook. Professionals in various domains, including executives, managers, analysts, professors, doctors, accountants, and others can use this book to learn in a few hours how to make sense of and develop actionable insights from the enormous data coming their way. This is a flowing book that one can finish in one sitting, or one can return to it again and again as a reference book for insights and techniques.

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