Data Mining for Business Analytics

Galit Shmueli & Peter C. Bruce & Peter Gedeck & Nitin R. Patel

Language: English

Publisher: Wiley

Published: Oct 17, 2019

Description:

Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Python presents an applied approach to data mining concepts and methods, using Python software for illustration

Readers will learn how to implement a variety of popular data mining algorithms in Python (a free and open-source software) to tackle business problems and opportunities.

This is the sixth version of this successful text, and the first using Python. It covers both statistical and machine learning algorithms for prediction, classification, visualization, dimension reduction, recommender systems, clustering, text mining and network analysis. It also includes:

  • A new co-author, Peter Gedeck, who brings both experience teaching business analytics courses using Python, and expertise in the application of machine learning methods to the drug-discovery process
  • A new section on ethical issues in data mining
  • Updates and new material based on...