| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781449361327 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
006.312 PR DA |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Authors |
Provost, Foster, |
| Dates |
1964- |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Data science for business |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett |
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| Title proper/short title |
Data science for business : what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Beijing : |
| Publisher |
O'Reilly, |
| Date |
c2013. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxi, 386 p. : |
| Other Details |
ill., map ; |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Subtitle from cover. |
| CONTENTS |
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| 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 avoidace -- 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. |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
This broad, deep, but not-too-technical guide introduces you to 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. |
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| Topical Heading |
Data mining |
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Big data |
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Information science |
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Business |
| Geographic |
Data processing |
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| Name |
Fawcett, Tom |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/vputfhdosh2virihawmxbswm3z4qgk21 |
| Public note |
Location Map |
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