Straight Talk from the Frontline Cathy O\'Neil , Rachel Schutt Additional Author mixed material bibliography Islamabad Al Hafiz Traders 2013 en English

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405 Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that?s so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University?s Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know. In many of these chapter-long lectures, data scientists from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and eBay share new algorithms, methods, and models by presenting case studies and the code they use. If you?re familiar with linear algebra, probability, and statistics, and have programming experience, this book is an ideal introduction to data science. Topics include: Statistical inference, exploratory data analysis, and the data science process Algorithms Spam filters, Naive Bayes, and data wrangling Logistic regression Financial modeling Recommendation engines and causality Data visualization Social networks and data journalism Data engineering, MapReduce, Pregel, and Hadoop Doing Data Science is collaboration between course instructor Rachel Schutt, Senior VP of Data Science at News Corp, and data science consultant Cathy O?Neil, a senior data scientist at Johnson Research Labs, who attended and blogged about the course. Cathy O'Neil , Rachel Schutt Computer Science Data Science 1. Computer Science 2. Software Engineering 3. Dat Data Science Information Technology 006..312 9781449358655 NUML LIBRARY RAWALPINDI (National University of Modern Languages) NUML library is the state of art which equipped “RESEARCH FACILITATION CENTRE” with latest computers for readers to access the digital library of more than 23000 research journals and 130000 online books and E-Library of NUML-Rawalpindi. 006..312 14209 14209.jpg.jpg 21461 2025-09-04 18:32:53 2026-02-03 16:41:48 machine generated