You're reading from Practical Data Science with Python Learn tools and techniques from hands-on examples to extract insights from data

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801071970

Length 620 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Excel

Concepts

Data Science

Author (1):

Nathan George

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Table of Contents (30) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I - An Introduction and the Basics

2. Introduction to Data Science FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Started with Python

4. Part II - Dealing with Data

5. SQL and Built-in File Handling Modules in Python

6. Loading and Wrangling Data with Pandas and NumPy

7. Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization

8. Data Wrangling Documents and Spreadsheets

9. Web Scraping

10. Part III - Statistics for Data Science

11. Probability, Distributions, and Sampling

12. Statistical Testing for Data Science

13. Part IV - Machine Learning

14. Preparing Data for Machine Learning: Feature Selection, Feature Engineering, and Dimensionality Reduction

15. Machine Learning for Classification

16. Evaluating Machine Learning Classification Models and Sampling for Classification

17. Machine Learning with Regression

18. Optimizing Models and Using AutoML

19. Tree-Based Machine Learning Models

20. Support Vector Machine (SVM) Machine Learning Models

21. Part V - Text Analysis and Reporting

22. Clustering with Machine Learning

23. Working with Text

24. Part VI - Wrapping Up

25. Data Storytelling and Automated Reporting/Dashboarding

26. Ethics and Privacy

27. Staying Up to Date and the Future of Data Science

28. Other Books You May Enjoy

29. Index

Data privacy regulations and laws

To help protect personal privacy, many regulations and laws have been enacted around the world. One of the biggest laws in the EU is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This gives EU consumers several rights related to their data privacy, such as the right to be informed about data collection being performed on them, the right to request a copy of the data collected on them, rights to rectify and erase data, and a few others.

Importantly, users must give consent before data can be collected on them, such as cookies and IP addresses collected from visiting websites. Additionally, any company that suffers a data breach must notify consumers and their supervisory authority within 72 hours.

The US does not have a nationwide law on data privacy at the time of writing, but a few states have enacted legislation, such as New York's SHIELD Act, Virginia's Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act...