Preface

This book is about Data Science, one of the fastest growing fields with applications in almost all disciplines. The book provides a comprehensive overview of data science.

Data science is a data-driven decision making approach that uses several different areas, methods, algorithms, models, and disciplines with a purpose of extracting insights and knowledge from structured and unstructured data. These insights are helpful in applying algorithms and models to make decisions. The models in data science are used in predictive analytics to predict future outcomes. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are major application areas of data science.

Data science is a multidisciplinary field that provides the knowledge and skills ...

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