PACK | Practical Data Science Cookbook, 2nd Edition (2017 EN)

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    Author: Prabhanjan Tattar, Bhushan Purushottam Joshi
    Full Title: Practical Data Science Cookbook, 2nd Edition
    Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account; 2nd Revised edition edition (July 6, 2017)
    Year: 2017
    ISBN-13: 9781787129627 (978-1-78712-962-7)
    ISBN-10: 1787129624
    Pages: 434
    Language: English
    Genre: Big Data & Business Intelligence
    File type: AZW3 (True)
    Quality: 10/10
    Price: 17.50 €


    Over 85 recipes to help you complete real-world data science projects in R and Python.

    As increasing amounts of data are generated each year, the need to analyze and create value out of it is more important than ever. Companies that know what to do with their data and how to do it well will have a competitive advantage over companies that don’t. Because of this, there will be an increasing demand for people that possess both the analytical and technical abilities to extract valuable insights from data and create valuable solutions that put those insights to use.

    Starting with the basics, this book covers how to set up your numerical programming environment, introduces you to the data science pipeline, and guides you through several data projects in a step-by-step format. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly familiarize yourself with the process and learn how to apply it to a variety of situations with examples using the two most popular programming languages for data analysis—R and Python.


    What You Will Learn:
    ✓ Learn and understand the installation procedure and environment required for R and Python on various platforms
    ✓ Prepare data for analysis by implement various data science concepts such as acquisition, cleaning and munging through R and Python
    ✓ Build a predictive model and an exploratory model
    ✓ Analyze the results of your model and create reports on the acquired data
    ✓ Build various tree-based methods and Build random forest

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