Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications

Igual, Laura/ Seguí, Santi/ Vitrià, Jordi (Contributor)/ Puertas, Eloi (Contributor)/ Radeva, Petia (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 3319500163 / ISBN 13: 9783319500164

Published by Springer-Verlag New York Inc, 2017

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218 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319500163
• ISBN 13: 9783319500164
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts adopted from statistics and machine learning, useful techniques for graph analysis and parallel programming, and the practical application of data science for such tasks as building recommender systems or performing sentiment analysis. Topics and features: provides numerous practical case studies using real-world data throughout the book; supports understanding through hands-on experience of solving data science problems using Python; describes techniques and tools for statistical analysis, machine learning, graph analysis, and parallel programming; reviews a range of applications of data science, including recommender systems and sentiment analysis of text data; provides supplementary code resources and data at an associated website.

About the Author

Dr. Laura Igual is an Associate Professor at the Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Santi Seguí is an Assistant Professor at the same institution.

The authors wish to mention that some chapters were co-written by Jordi Vitrià, Eloi Puertas, Petia Radeva, Oriol Pujol, Sergio Escalera, Francesc Dantí and Lluís Garrido.