This book is written for the general reader with no previous programming experience with an entire chapter is dedicated to learning the basics of Python and R. Then, each chapter presents step-by-step instructions and walkthroughs for solving data science problems using Python and R. Authors Chantal  and Daniel Larose cover topics including data preparation, exploratory data analysis, preparing to model the data, decision trees, model evaluation, misclassification costs, naïve Bayes classification, neural networks, clustering, regression modeling, dimension reduction, and association rules mining.Topics such as random forests and general linear models are also included. 

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Author: Chantal D. Larose and Daniel T. Larose
Publisher: Wiley
Date: April 2019
Pages: 240
ISBN: 978-1119526810
Print: 1119526817
Kindle: B07NQZF8W2
Audience: would-be data scientists
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Category: Data Science and Python

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