Doing Data Science (Paperback)

Cathy O'Neill

ISBN 10: 1449358659 / ISBN 13: 9781449358655

Edité par O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, 2013

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Paperback. Now that answering complex and compelling questions with data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science is an attractive discipline. But how can you learn this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field? With this book, you'll get material from Columbia University's "Introduction to Data Science" class in an easy-to-follow format. Each chapter-long lecture features a guest data scientist from a prominent company such as Google, Microsoft, or eBay teaching new algorithms, methods, or models by sharing case studies and actual code they use. You'll learn what's involved in the lives of data scientists and be able to use the techniques they present. Guest lectures focus on topics such as: Machine learning and data mining algorithms Statistical models and methods Prediction vs. description Exploratory data analysis Communication and visualization Data processing Big data Programming Ethics Asking good questions If you're familiar with linear algebra, probability and statistics, and have some programming experience, this book will get you started with data science. Doing Data Science is collaboration between course instructor Rachel Schutt (also employed by Google) and data science consultant Cathy O'Neil (former quantitative analyst for D.E. Shaw) who attended and blogged about the course. Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that's so clouded in hype? This insightful book tells you what you need to know. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Doing Data Science (Paperback)
• Éditeur: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1449358659
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781449358655
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that's so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University's Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know.

In many of these chapter-long lectures, data scientists from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and eBay share new algorithms, methods, and models by presenting case studies and the code they use. If you're familiar with linear algebra, probability, and statistics, and have programming experience, this book is an ideal introduction to data science.

Topics include:

• Statistical inference, exploratory data analysis, and the data science process
• Algorithms
• Spam filters, Naive Bayes, and data wrangling
• Logistic regression
• Financial modeling
• Recommendation engines and causality
• Data visualization
• Social networks and data journalism
• Data engineering, MapReduce, Pregel, and Hadoop

Doing Data Science is collaboration between course instructor Rachel Schutt, Senior VP of Data Science at News Corp, and data science consultant Cathy O'Neil, a senior data scientist at Johnson Research Labs, who attended and blogged about the course.

À propos des auteurs

Cathy O'Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard, was postdoc at the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. She then chucked it and switched over to the private sector. She worked as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the middle of the credit crisis, and then for RiskMetrics, a risk software company that assesses risk for the holdings of hedge funds and banks. She is currently a data scientist on the New York start-up scene, writes a blog at mathbabe.org, and is involved with Occupy Wall Street.

Rachel Schutt is the Senior Vice President for Data Science at News Corp. She earned a PhD in Statistics from Columbia University, and was a statistician at Google Research for several years. She is an adjunct professor in Columbia's Department of Statistics and a founding member of the Education Committee for the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia. She holds several pending patents based on her work at Google, where she helped build user-facing products by prototyping algorithms and building models to understand user behavior. She has a master's degree in mathematics from NYU, and a master's degree in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. Her undergraduate degree is in Honors Mathematics from the University of Michigan.