A General Introduction to Data Analytics /

A General Introduction to Data Analytics is an essential guide to understand and use data analytics. This book is written using easy-to-understand terms and does not require familiarity with statistics or programming. The authors―noted experts in the field―highlight an explanation of the intuition b...

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Main Authors: Moreira, Joao (Author), Carvalho, André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira (Author), Horvath, Tomas, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2019
©2019
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505 0 |a What can we do with data? -- Descriptive statistics -- Descriptive multivariate analysis -- Data quality and pre-processing -- Clustering -- Frequent pattern mining -- Resume and project on descriptive analytics -- Regression -- Classification -- Additional predictive methods -- Advanced predictive topics -- Resume and project on predictive analytics -- Applications for text, web and social media 
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