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Python: Real-World Data Science

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Product type Course
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786465160
Length 1255 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fabrizio Romano Fabrizio Romano
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Phuong Vo.T.H Phuong Vo.T.H
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Robert Layton Robert Layton
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Sebastian Raschka Sebastian Raschka
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Martin Czygan Martin Czygan
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Table of Contents FREE CHAPTER
Python: Real-World Data Science
Meet Your Course Guide
What's so cool about Data Science?
Course Structure
Course Journey
The Course Roadmap and Timeline
1. Course Module 1: Python Fundamentals 2. Course Module 2: Data Analysis 3. Course Module 3: Data Mining 4. Course Module 4: Machine Learning Index

What's so cool about Data Science?

What is Data Science and why is there so much of buzz about this in the world? Is it of great importance? Well, the following sentence will answer all such questions:

 

"This hot new field promises to revolutionize industries from business to government, health care to academia."

 
 --The New York Times

The world is generating data at an increasing pace. Consumers, sensors, or scientific experiments emit data points every day. In finance, business, administration, and the natural or social sciences, working with data can make up a significant part of the job. Being able to efficiently work with small or large datasets has become a valuable skill. Also, we live in a world of connected things where tons of data is generated and it is humanly impossible to analyze all the incoming data and make decisions. Human decisions are increasingly replaced by decisions made by computers. Thanks to the field of Data Science!

Data science has...

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