Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications

by Laura Igual

Overview

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts from statistics, machine/deep learning and responsible data science, useful techniques for network analysis and natural language processing, and practical applications of data science such as recommender systems or 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 concepts, techniques and tools for statistical analysis, machine learning, graph analysis, natural language processing, deep learning and responsible data science
• 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

This practically-focused textbook provides an ideal introduction to the field for upper-tier undergraduate and beginning graduate students from computer science, mathematics, statistics, and other technical disciplines. The work is also eminently suitable for professionals on continuous education short courses, and to researchers following self-study courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2903319500163
Publication date:	03/04/2017
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. Laura Igual is an Associate Professor at the Departament de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Santi Seguí is an Associate 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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Data Science.- 2. Toolboxes for Data Scientists.- 3. Descriptive statistics.- 4. Statistical Inference.- 5. Supervised Learning.- 6. Regression Analysis.- 7. Unsupervised Learning.- 8. Network Analysis.- 9. Recommender Systems.- 10. Statistical Natural Language Processing for Sentiment Analysis.- 11. Parallel Computing.

Editorial 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)

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