Beschreibung:
This easy-to-read text ideally serves the needs of undergraduate and early graduate students embarking on an "Introduction to Data Science" course. It reveals how this discipline sits at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and machine learning, with a distinct heft and character of its own. Practitioners in these and related fields will find this book perfect for self-study as well.
What is Data Science?.- Mathematical Preliminaries.- Data Munging.- Scores and Rankings.- Statistical Analysis.- Visualizing Data.- Mathematical Models.- Linear Algebra.- Linear and Logistic Regression.- Distance and Network Methods.- Machine Learning.- Big Data: Achieving Scale.