Guide to Intelligent Data Science How to Intelligently Make Use of Real Data-Second Edition

The interest in making sense of data has become central to pretty much every busi- ness and project in the past decade. When we wrote the first edition of this volume, it was aimed at the people whose task it was to analyze real world data””often in a side department, prepared to solve problems given to them. In the meantime, data science use has spread from those isolated groups to the entire organization. This fits our goal from the first edition even more: providing different levels of detail for each section of the book. Readers more interested in the concepts and how to apply methods, focus more on the first half of each chapter. Readers, also interested in the underpinnings of the presented methods and algorithms, find the theory in the middle. And for both audiences, the end of most chapters shows practical examples of how to apply these to real data.