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Principles of Data Science

You're reading from   Principles of Data Science Mathematical techniques and theory to succeed in data-driven industries

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785887918
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sinan Ozdemir Sinan Ozdemir
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. How to Sound Like a Data Scientist FREE CHAPTER 2. Types of Data 3. The Five Steps of Data Science 4. Basic Mathematics 5. Impossible or Improbable – A Gentle Introduction to Probability 6. Advanced Probability 7. Basic Statistics 8. Advanced Statistics 9. Communicating Data 10. How to Tell If Your Toaster Is Learning – Machine Learning Essentials 11. Predictions Don't Grow on Trees – or Do They? 12. Beyond the Essentials 13. Case Studies Index

Summary

Data communication is not an easy task. It is one thing to understand the mathematics of how data science works, but it is a completely different thing to try to convince a room of data scientists and non-data scientists alike of your results and their value to them. In this chapter, we went over basic chart making as well as how to identify faulty causation and the ability to hone our oral presentation skills.

Our next few chapters will really begin to hit at one of the biggest talking points of data science. In the last nine chapters, we spoke about everything between how to obtain data, clean data, and visualize data in order to gain a better understanding of the environment that the data represents.

We then turned to looking at the basic and advanced probability/statistics laws in order to use quantifiable theorems and tests on our data to get actionable results and answers.

In subsequent chapters, we will take a look into machine learning and the nature in which machine learning...

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