Data Engineering and Data Science: Concepts and Applications

Written and edited by one of the most prolific and well-known experts in the field and his team, this exciting new volume is the “one-stop shop” for the concepts and applications of data science and engineering for data scientists across many industries.

The field of data science is incredibly broad, encompassing everything from cleaning data to deploying predictive models. However, it is rare for any single data scientist to be working across the spectrum day to day. Data scientists usually focus on a few areas and are complemented by a team of other scientists and analysts. Data engineering is also a broad field, but any individual data engineer doesn’t need to know the whole spectrum of skills. Data engineering is the aspect of data science that focuses on practical applications of data collection and analysis. For all the work that data scientists do to answer questions using large sets of information, there have to be mechanisms for collecting and validating that information.

In this exciting new volume, the team of editors and contributors sketch the broad outlines of data engineering, then walk through more specific descriptions that illustrate specific data engineering roles. Data-driven discovery is revolutionizing the modeling, prediction, and control of complex systems. This book brings together machine learning, engineering mathematics, and mathematical physics to integrate modeling and control of dynamical systems with modern methods in data science. It highlights many of the recent advances in scientific computing that enable data-driven methods to be applied to a diverse range of complex systems, such as turbulence, the brain, climate, epidemiology, finance, robotics, and autonomy. Whether for the veteran engineer or scientist working in the field or laboratory, or the student or academic, this is a must-have for any library.

Kukatlapalli Pradeep Kumar, PhD, is an associate professor and the Program Coordinator for Data Science at Christ University, Bangalore, India. He has 13 years of research and academic experience. He has published in many journals and presented numerous conference papers.

Aynur Unal, PhD, educated at Stanford University (class of ’73), has taught at Stanford University for almost 40 years and established the Acoustics Institute. Her work on “New Transform Domains for the Onset of Failures” received a prestigious research award.

Vinay Jha Pillai, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at CHRIST University, Bangalore, India. He has 12 years of academic experience and holds two patents. He has also completed two funded projects as principal investigator.

Hari Murthy, PhD, is a faculty member in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CHRIST University, Bengaluru, India. He finished his PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where his thesis was on novel anticorrosion materials. He has authored book chapters and published papers in international journals and conferences and has served as part of the program committees for several international conferences.

M. Niranjanamurthy, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Applications, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka. He earned his PhD in computer science at JJTU, Rajasthan, India. He has over 11 years of teaching experience and two years of industry experience as a software engineer. He has published several books, and he is working on numerous books for Scrivener Publishing. He has published over 60 papers for scholarly journals and conferences, and he is working as a reviewer in 22 scientific journals. He also has numerous awards to his credit.