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Data science for business : [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking]
- Title
- Data science for business : [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking] / Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett.
- Author
- Provost, Foster, 1964-
- Publication
- Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Fawcett, Tom.
- Description
- xxi, 386 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of data science, walking the reader through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from collected data.
- Alternative Title
- What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking
- Data mining and data-analytic thinking
- Subjects
- Note
- Subtitle from cover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-368) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : data-analytic thinking -- Business problems and data science solutions -- Introduction to predictive modeling : from correlation to supervised segmentation -- Fitting a model to data -- Overfitting and its avoidance -- Similarity, neighbors, and clusters -- Decision analytic thinking I : what is a good model? -- Visualizing model performance -- Evidence and probabilities -- Representing and mining text -- Decision analytic thinking II : toward analytical engineering -- Other data science tasks and techniques -- Data science and business strategy -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- QA76.9.D343
- ISBN
- 1449361323
- 9781449361327
- OCLC
- 844460899
- Author
- Provost, Foster, 1964-
- Title
- Data science for business : [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking] / Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett.
- Imprint
- Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly, 2013.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-368) and index.
- Added Author
- Fawcett, Tom.
- Research Call Number
- QA76.9.D343 P76 2013