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Author: Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett

This broad, deep, not-too-technical guide introduces you the fundamental principles of data science and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. By learning data science principles, you will understand the many data mining techniques in use today. More importantly, these principles underpin the processes and strategies necessary to solve business problems though data mining techniques. Based on an MBA course Provost has taught at New York University over the past ten years, Data Science for Business provides examples of real-world business problems to illustrate these principles. You'll not only learn how to improve communication between business stakeholders and data scientists, but also how participate intelligently in your company's data science projects.

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. Amazon and Google are well-established companies that get tremendous value from their data assets. 12 | Chapter 1: Introduction: Data-Analytic Thinking fun...
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l apply to predictive modeling. So a reader with some back‐ ground in regression analysis may encounter new and even seemingly contradictory lessons.6 Machin...
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ests Balance against a threshold of 50K. In the graph, this corresponds to a vertical line at 50K on the x axis splitting the plane into Balance<50K and Bala...
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s the procedure its common name “least squares” regression. So why do so many people use least squares regression without much thought to alter‐ natives? The...
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ely used for training. The horizontal line in each graph is the average of accuracies of the ten models of that type. There are several things to observe her...
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ks, for example regression and class probability estimation. Generally, we can think of the procedure as weighted scor‐ ing. Weighted scoring has a nice cons...
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each cluster. And that’s pretty much it. The process simply iterates: since the cluster centers have shifted, we need to recalculate which points belong to e...
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ISBN: 1449361323
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publish Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 408
File Format: PDF
File Size: 18.7 MB
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