Description:
By: James D. Miller
Released: November 17, 2017
Pages: 286 pages
Format: EPUB
Source: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/statistics-data-science
Get your statistics basics right before diving into the world of data science
Details
ISBN 9781788290678
Reading Length 8 hours 34 minutes
Table of Contents
• Transitioning from Data Developer to Data Scientist
• Declaring the Objectives
• A Developer's Approach to Data Cleaning
• Data Mining and the Database Developer
• Statistical Analysis for the Database Developer
• Database Progression to Database Regression
• Regularization for Database Improvement
• Database Development and Assessment
• Databases and Neural Networks
• Boosting your Database
• Database Classification using Support Vector Machines
• Database Structures and Machine Learning
Learn
• Analyze the transition from a data developer to a data scientist mindset
• Get acquainted with the R programs and the logic used for statistical computations
• Understand mathematical concepts such as variance, standard deviation, probability, matrix calculations, and more
• Learn to implement statistics in data science tasks such as data cleaning, mining, and analysis
• Learn the statistical techniques required to perform tasks such as linear regression, regularization, model assessment, boosting, SVMs, and working with neural networks
• Get comfortable with performing various statistical computations for data science programmatically
About
Data science is an ever-evolving field, which is growing in popularity at an exponential rate. Data science includes techniques and theories extracted from the fields of statistics; computer science, and, most importantly, machine learning, databases, data visualization, and so on.
This book takes you through an entire journey of statistics, from knowing very little to becoming comfortable in using various statistical methods for data science tasks. It starts off with simple statistics and then move on to statistical methods that are used in data science algorithms. The R programs for statistical computation are clearly explained along with logic. You will come across various mathematical concepts, such as variance, standard deviation, probability, matrix calculations, and more. You will learn only what is required to implement statistics in data science tasks such as data cleaning, mining, and analysis. You will learn the statistical techniques required to perform tasks such as linear regression, regularization, model assessment, boosting, SVMs, and working with neural networks.
By the end of the book, you will be comfortable with performing various statistical computations for data science programmatically.
Features:
• No need to take a degree in statistics, read this book and get a strong statistics base for data science and real-world programs;
• Implement statistics in data science tasks such as data cleaning, mining, and analysis
• Learn all about probability, statistics, numerical computations, and more with the help of R programs
Author(s)
James D. Miller is an innovator and accomplished senior project lead and solution architect with 37 years' experience of extensive design and development across multiple platforms and technologies. Roles include leveraging his consulting experience to provide hands-on leadership in all phases of advanced analytics and related technology projects, providing recommendations for process improvement, report accuracy, the adoption of disruptive technologies, enablement, and insight identification. He has also written a number of books, including Statistics for Data Science; Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition; Big Data Visualization; Learning Watson Analytics; and many more.
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