Description
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 provide 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,clustering and classification; reviews a range of applications of data science, including recommender systems and related data analysis of text data; provides supplementary code resources and data. Chapters of this book is designed to suit the syllabus of PhD course Work syllabus of Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, India. I believe that this book will also cater the need of all who begin to learn about the basics of data analytics with python.