Overview
- Describes tools and techniques that demystify data science
- Presents a focus on analytical techniques; the core toolbox for every data scientist
- Includes numerous practical case studies using real-world data, supplying code examples and data at an associated website
- Discusses Python extensions, techniques and modules to perform statistical analysis and machine learning, and important applications of data science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts adopted from statistics and machine learning, useful techniques for graph analysis and parallel programming, and the practical application of data science for such tasks as building recommender systems or performing sentiment analysis. Topics and features: provides numerous practical case studies using real-world data throughout the book; supports understanding through hands-on experience of solving data science problems using Python; describes techniques and tools for statistical analysis, machine learning, graph analysis, and parallel programming; reviews a range of applications of data science, including recommender systems and sentiment analysis of text data; provides supplementary code resources and data at an associated website.
Reviews
“This book contains a broad range of timely topics and presents interesting examples on real-life data using Python. … the book is a good addition to references on Python and data science. Students as well as practicing data scientists and engineers will benefit from the many techniques and use cases presented in the book.” (Computing Reviews, December, 2017)
“The book ‘Introduction to Data Science’ is built as a starter presentation of concepts, techniques and approaches that constitute the initial contact with data science for scientists … . The style of the book recommends it to both undergraduates and postgraduates and the concluding remarks and references provide guidance for the next steps in the study of particular topics.” (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH, Vol. 1365.62003, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Laura Igual is an Associate Professor at the Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Santi Seguí is an Assistant Professor at the same institution.
The authors wish to mention that some chapters were co-written by Jordi Vitrià, Eloi Puertas, Petia Radeva, Oriol Pujol, Sergio Escalera, Francesc Dantí and Lluís Garrido.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Data Science
Book Subtitle: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications
Authors: Laura Igual, Santi Seguí
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50017-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50017-1Published: 22 February 2017
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 218
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs