Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster.
Published by Manning
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
LIST PRICE $34.99
PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER
Digital products purchased on SimonandSchuster.com must be read on the Simon & Schuster Books app. Learn more.
Get 25% off plus free shipping on orders of $40 or more with code GIFT25. (Terms apply)
Buy from Other Retailers
Table of Contents
About The Book
Summary
Think Like a Data Scientist presents a step-by-step approach to data science, combining analytic, programming, and business perspectives into easy-to-digest techniques and thought processes for solving real world data-centric problems.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Data collected from customers, scientific measurements, IoT sensors, and so on is valuable only if you understand it. Data scientists revel in the interesting and rewarding challenge of observing, exploring, analyzing, and interpreting this data. Getting started with data science means more than mastering analytic tools and techniques, however; the real magic happens when you begin to think like a data scientist. This book will get you there.
About the Book
Think Like a Data Scientist teaches you a step-by-step approach to solving real-world data-centric problems. By breaking down carefully crafted examples, you'll learn to combine analytic, programming, and business perspectives into a repeatable process for extracting real knowledge from data. As you read, you'll discover (or remember) valuable statistical techniques and explore powerful data science software. More importantly, you'll put this knowledge together using a structured process for data science. When you've finished, you'll have a strong foundation for a lifetime of data science learning and practice.
What's Inside
About the Reader
Readers need beginner programming skills and knowledge of basic statistics.
About the Author
Brian Godsey has worked in software, academia, finance, and defense and has launched several data-centric start-ups.
Table of Contents
Think Like a Data Scientist presents a step-by-step approach to data science, combining analytic, programming, and business perspectives into easy-to-digest techniques and thought processes for solving real world data-centric problems.
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
Data collected from customers, scientific measurements, IoT sensors, and so on is valuable only if you understand it. Data scientists revel in the interesting and rewarding challenge of observing, exploring, analyzing, and interpreting this data. Getting started with data science means more than mastering analytic tools and techniques, however; the real magic happens when you begin to think like a data scientist. This book will get you there.
About the Book
Think Like a Data Scientist teaches you a step-by-step approach to solving real-world data-centric problems. By breaking down carefully crafted examples, you'll learn to combine analytic, programming, and business perspectives into a repeatable process for extracting real knowledge from data. As you read, you'll discover (or remember) valuable statistical techniques and explore powerful data science software. More importantly, you'll put this knowledge together using a structured process for data science. When you've finished, you'll have a strong foundation for a lifetime of data science learning and practice.
What's Inside
- The data science process, step-by-step
- How to anticipate problems
- Dealing with uncertainty
- Best practices in software and scientific thinking
About the Reader
Readers need beginner programming skills and knowledge of basic statistics.
About the Author
Brian Godsey has worked in software, academia, finance, and defense and has launched several data-centric start-ups.
Table of Contents
- Philosophies of data science
- Setting goals by asking good questions
- Data all around us: the virtual wilderness
- Data wrangling: from capture to domestication
- Data assessment: poking and prodding
- Developing a plan
- Statistics and modeling: concepts and foundations
- Software: statistics in action
- Supplementary software: bigger, faster, more efficient
- Plan execution: putting it all together
- Delivering a product
- After product delivery: problems and revisions
- Wrapping up: putting the project away
PART 1 - PREPARING AND GATHERING DATA AND KNOWLEDGE
PART 2 - BUILDING A PRODUCT WITH SOFTWARE AND STATISTICS
PART 3 - FINISHING OFF THE PRODUCT AND WRAPPING UP
Product Details
- Publisher: Manning (March 9, 2017)
- Length: 328 pages
- ISBN13: 9781638355205
Browse Related Books
Resources and Downloads
High Resolution Images
- Book Cover Image (jpg): Think Like a Data Scientist eBook 9781638355205