Learning Data Mining with Python

If you are a programmer who wants to get started with data mining, then this book is for you. Previous experience with data mining libraries will help, but is not mandatory.

Robert Layton

Robert Layton has a PhD in computer science and has been an avid Python programmer for many years. He has worked closely with some of the largest companies in the world on data mining applications for real-world data and has also been published extensively in international journals and conferences. He has extensive experience in cybercrime and text-based data analytics, with a focus on behavioral modeling, authorship analysis, and automated open source intelligence. He has contributed code to a number of open source libraries, including the scikit-learn library used in this book, and was a Google Summer of Code mentor in 2014. Robert runs a data mining consultancy company called dataPipeline, providing data mining and analytics solutions to businesses in a variety of industries.