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Author Steele, Brian M., author.

Title Algorithms for data science / Brian Steele, John Chandler, Swarna Reddy
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 430 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction -- Part I. Data reduction ; Data mapping and data dictionaries -- Scalable algorithms and associative statistics -- Hadoop and MapReduce -- Part II. Extracting information from data ; Data visualization -- Linear regression methods -- Healthcare analytics -- Cluster analysis -- Part III. Predictive analytics ; [Lowercase italic]k-nearest neighbor prediction functions -- The multinomial naïve Bayes prediction function -- Forecasting -- Real-time analytics -- A. Solutions to exercises -- B. Accessing the Twitter API
Summary This textbook on practical data analytics unites fundamental principles, algorithms, and data. Algorithms are the keystone of data analytics and the focal point of this textbook. Clear and intuitive explanations of the mathematical and statistical foundations make the algorithms transparent. But practical data analytics requires more than just the foundations. Problems and data are enormously variable and only the most elementary of algorithms can be used without modification. Programming fluency and experience with real and challenging data is indispensable and so the reader is immersed in Python and R and real data analysis. By the end of the book, the reader will have gained the ability to adapt algorithms to new problems and carry out innovative analyses. This book is intended for a one- or two-semester course in data analytics for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, statistics, and computer science. The prerequisites are kept low, and students with one or two courses in probability or statistics, an exposure to vectors and matrices, and a programming course will have no difficulty. The core material of every chapter is accessible to all with these prerequisites. The chapters often expand at the close with innovations of interest to practitioners of data science. Each chapter includes exercises of varying levels of difficulty. The text is eminently suitable for self-study and an exceptional resource for practitioners
Bibliography Includes exercises at chapter ends, bibliographical references (pages 419-421), and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 11, 2017)
Subject Quantitative research -- Mathematics
Mathematical & statistical software.
Mathematical theory of computation.
Medical equipment & techniques.
Data mining.
Computers -- Mathematical & Statistical Software.
Computers -- Data Processing.
Medical -- General.
Computers -- Database Management -- Data Mining.
Computer science
Computer science -- Mathematics
Data mining
Medical informatics
Statistics
Genre/Form Instructional and educational works.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Form Electronic book
Author Chandler, John (Professor of marketing), author.
Reddy, Swarna. author.
ISBN 9783319457970
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