Davy Cielen, Arno Meysman, Mohamed Ali, "Introducing Data Science: Big Data, Machine Learning, and more, using Python tools"
English | ISBN: 1633430030 | 2016 | PDF | 320 pages | 15 MB

                                                
Summary

Introducing Data Science teaches you how to accomplish the fundamental tasks that occupy data scientists. Using the Python language and common Python libraries, you'll experience firsthand the challenges of dealing with data at scale and gain a solid foundation in data science.

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About the Technology

Many companies need developers with data science skills to work on projects ranging from social media marketing to machine learning. Discovering what you need to learn to begin a career as a data scientist can seem bewildering. This book is designed to help you get started.

About the Book

Introducing Data ScienceIntroducing Data Science explains vital data science concepts and teaches you how to accomplish the fundamental tasks that occupy data scientists. Youll explore data visualization, graph databases, the use of NoSQL, and the data science process. Youll use the Python language and common Python libraries as you experience firsthand the challenges of dealing with data at scale. Discover how Python allows you to gain insights from data sets so big that they need to be stored on multiple machines, or from data moving so quickly that no single machine can handle it. This book gives you hands-on experience with the most popular Python data science libraries, Scikit-learn and StatsModels. After reading this book, youll have the solid foundation you need to start a career in data science.

Whats Inside

Handling large data
Introduction to machine learning
Using Python to work with data
Writing data science algorithms