A GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS THAT DOES NOT
REQUIRE KNOWLEDGE OF STATISTICS OR PROGRAMMING
_A General Introduction to Data Analytics_ is an essential guide to
understand and use data analytics. This book is written using
easy-to-understand terms and does not require familiarity with
statistics or programming. The authors--noted experts in the
field--highlight an explanation of the intuition behind the basic data
analytics techniques. The text also contains exercises and
illustrative examples.
Thought to be easily accessible to non-experts, the book provides
motivation to the necessity of analyzing data. It explains how to
visualize and summarize data, and how to find natural groups and
frequent patterns in a dataset. The book also explores predictive
tasks, be them classification or regression. Finally, the book
discusses popular data analytic applications, like mining the web,
information retrieval, social network analysis, working with text, and
recommender systems. The learning resources offer:
* A guide to the reasoning behind data mining techniques
* A unique illustrative example that extends throughout all the
chapters
* Exercises at the end of each chapter and larger projects at the
end of each of the text’s two main parts
Together with these learning resources, the book can be used in a
13-week course guide, one chapter per course topic.
The book was written in a format that allows the understanding of the
main data analytics concepts by non-mathematicians, non-statisticians
and non-computer scientists interested in getting an introduction to
data science. _A General Introduction to Data Analytics _is a basic
guide to data analytics written in highly accessible terms.
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ISBN
9781119296263
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
Wiley-Interscience (P&T)
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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