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Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but theyre also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. In this book, youll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch.If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to get started as a data scientist. Todays messy glut of data holds answers to questions no ones even thought to ask. This book provides you with the know how to dig those answers out.Get a crash course in PythonLearn the basics of linear algebra, statistics, and probability - and understand how and when theyre used in data scienceCollect, explore, clean, munge, and manipulate dataDive into the fundamentals of machine learningImplement models such as k nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, linear and logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks, and clusteringExplore recommender systems, natural language processing, network analysis, Map Reduce, and databases.



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Joel Grus

Joel Grus is a software engineer at Google. Before that he worked as a data scientist at multiple startups. He lives in Seattle, where he regularly attends data science happy hours. He blogs infrequently at joelgrus.com.



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