Nailong Zhang

A Tour of Data Science

Learn R and Python in Parallel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the fundamentals of data science, including programming, statistics, optimization, and machine learning in a single and short book. It does not cover everything, but instead, teaches the key concepts and topics. It also covers two of the most popular programming languages used in Data Science, R and Python, in one source.

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Produktdetails

• Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780367897062
• ISBN-10: 0367897067
• Artikelnr.: 59986339

Autorenporträt

Nailong Zhang is lead Data Scientist at Mass Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Inhaltsangabe

Assumptions about the reader's background
Book overview
Introduction to R/Python Programming
Calculator
Variable and Type
Functions
Control flows
Some built-in data structures
Revisit of variables
Object-oriented programming (OOP) in R/Python
Miscellaneous
More on R/Python Programming
Work with R/Python scripts
Debugging in R/Python
Benchmarking
Vectorization
Embarrassingly parallelism in R/Python
Evaluation strategy
Speed up with C/C++ in R/Python
A first impression of functional programming Miscellaneous
data.table and pandas
SQL
Get started with data.table and pandas
Indexing & selecting data
Add/Remove/Update
Group by
Join
Random Variables, Distributions & Linear Regression
A refresher on distributions
Inversion sampling & rejection sampling
Joint distribution & copula
Fit a distribution
Confidence interval
Hypothesis testing
Basics of linear regression
Ridge regression
Optimization in Practice
Convexity
Gradient descent
Root-finding
General purpose minimization tools in R/Python
Linear programming
Miscellaneous
Machine Learning - A gentle introduction
Supervised learning
Gradient boosting machine
Unsupervised learning
Reinforcement learning
Deep Q-Networks
Computational differentiation
Miscellaneous