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Principles of Data Science

You're reading from   Principles of Data Science Understand, analyze, and predict data using Machine Learning concepts and tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789804546
Length 424 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sunil Kakade Sunil Kakade
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Sinan Ozdemir Sinan Ozdemir
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Marco Tibaldeschi Marco Tibaldeschi
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. How to Sound Like a Data Scientist 2. Types of Data FREE CHAPTER 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 14. Building Machine Learning Models with Azure Databricks and Azure Machine Learning service Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Summary

This concludes our long journey into the principles of data science. In the last 300-odd pages, we looked at different techniques in probability, statistics, and machine learning to answer the most difficult questions out there. I would like to personally congratulate you on making it through this book. I hope that it proved useful and inspired you to learn even more!

This isn't everything I need to know?

Nope! There is only so much I can fit into a principles level book. There is still so much to learn.

Where can I l earn more?

I recommend going to find open source data challenges (https://www.kaggle.com/ is a good source) for this. I'd also recommend seeking out, trying, and solving your own problems at home!

When do I get to call myself a data scientist?

When you begin cultivating actionable insights from datasets, both large and small, that companies and people can use, then you have the honor of calling yourself a true data scientist.

In the next chapter, we will apply...

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