Preface
The Basis for This Book and the Series
The authors have been collaborating on the ideas in this book for years. We met while working together in the software and technology sector. Each of us has backgrounds in statistics, machine learning, analytics, healthcare, and business. We noticed that while the products and solutions in the artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics space offered tremendous value, there was a great deal of misunderstanding of the terminology in and around this space. Furthermore, we noticed a lot of “reinvention” of methods that existed for years, meaning that in this “reinvention” many of the same concepts acquired “new names,” thus adding to the confusion, especially when attempting to communicate ...
