Practical Data Science Cookbook
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing, 2014
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- Title
- Practical Data Science Cookbook
- Author
- Ojeda, Tony,Murphy, Sean Patrick,Bengfort, Benjamin,Dasgupta, Abhijit
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1783980249
- ISBN 13
- 9781783980246
If you are an aspiring data scientist who wants to learn data science and numerical programming concepts through hands-on, real-world project examples, this is the book for you. Whether you are brand new to data science or you are a seasoned expert, you will benefit from learning about the structure of data science projects, the steps in the data science pipeline, and the programming examples presented in this book. Since the book is formatted to walk you through the projects with examples and explanations along the way, no prior programming experience is required.
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About the Author
Sean Patrick Murphy spent 15 years as a senior scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where he focused on machine learning, modeling and simulation, signal processing, and high performance computing in the Cloud. Now, he acts as an advisor and data consultant for companies in SF, NY, and DC. He completed his graduation from The Johns Hopkins University and his MBA from the University of Oxford. He currently co-organizes the Data Innovation DC meetup and cofounded the Data Science MD meetup. He is also a board member and cofounder of Data Community DC.
Benjamin Bengfort is an experienced data scientist and Python developer who has worked in military, industry, and academia for the past 8 years. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, doing research in Metacognition and Natural Language Processing. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from North Dakota State University, where he taught undergraduate Computer Science courses. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, where he teaches Data Science and Analytics. Benjamin has been involved in two data science start-ups in the DC region: leveraging large-scale machine learning and Big Data techniques across a variety of applications. He has a deep appreciation for the combination of models and data for entrepreneurial effect, and he is currently building one of these start-ups into a more mature organization.
Abhijit Dasgupta is a data consultant working in the greater DC-Maryland-Virginia area, with several years of experience in biomedical consulting, business analytics, bioinformatics, and bioengineering consulting. He has a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington and over 40 collaborative peer-reviewed manuscripts, with strong interests in bridging the statistics/machine-learning divide. He is always on the lookout for interesting and challenging projects, and is an enthusiastic speaker and discussant on new and better ways to look at and analyze data. He is a member of Data Community DC and a founding member and co-organizer of Statistical Programming DC (formerly, R Users DC).
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