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# Data Science for Business

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Review: Muy bueno. Explica algunas técnicas pero me ha gustado sobretodo por como explica los fundamentos. Un bue libro para empezar con el tema del data science....
Review: Data Science for Business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett is a very important book about data mining and data analytic thinking. In 1971, Abbie Hoffman shocked the world when he demanded hippie readers (at the time, a likely oxymoron) "Steal This Book". While I wouldn't go so far as to encourage current and future data scientists to shoplift, I will demand that they READ THIS BOOK! Not long ago, data was difficult and expensive to come by. Today, we're living in a world of far too much data, vast amounts of cheap computing power, and way too many poorly defined questions. Mix them all together and you're guaranteed to make a mess. Going from data dearth to plethora presents substantive issues. In business, the balance between gut feel decision-making and analysis paralysis is changing, rapidly. Whether it moves too far from gut to paralysis, only time will tell. Through Data Science for Business, Provost and Fawcett offer practitioners a guide to equilibrium. Read this book and you'll find yourself moving briskly down the road towards data analytic enlightenment. While not highly technical, the authors covers each topic with enough rigor to appreciate the tools being presented and the insights being offered. From the outset, the authors are clear about the book's objectives: "The primary goals of this book are to help you view business problems from a data perspective and understand principles of extracting useful knowledge from data. There is fundamental structure to data-analytic thinking, and basic principals that should be understood. There are also particular areas where intuition, creativity, common sense, and domain knowledge must be brought to bear… As you get better at data-analytic thinking you will develop intuition as to how and where to apply creativity and domain knowledge." This paragraph makes me think of all those undergrad and graduate students studying Statistics at Universities all over the world, my daughter included, who are being bombarded by one math or statistics class after another (Calculus III, Math Stat I and II, Linear Algebra, etc.). Yet, far too often, they enter the real world lacking "data analytic thinking" or a sense of "basic principals" They do, however, have a sense of being overwhelmed and under prepared. The epic battle between "frequentists" and "Bayesians", takes a back seat to what should be the real controversy in statistics departments around the world, the balance between "application" and "theory". The book's "primary goals" should be the walking orders of every statistics program at any college or university anywhere. From the outset (page 2), the authors state, "Data mining is a craft. It involves the application of a substantial amount of science and technology, but the proper application still involves art as well." Absolutely true! It's great to read this stuff! This is followed by a concise discussion of CRISP-DM, a well-defined data mining process, whose concepts are elementary, essential, and integral to the responsible, proper, and successful practice of data mining. From this point on, the authors proceed to accomplish their primary goals. They present such topics as predictive modeling, correlation, classification, clustering, regression, logistic regression, linear discriminants, and much more. Their presentations are user friendly, their real world examples are interesting, and their guidance and insights are extremely valuable. My criticisms are limited to their website. The Data Science for Business site leaves me wanting more real world examples to enjoy, access to more resources and tools of the trade, more references to peruse, and a more rigorous approach to some of the solutions. Perhaps Data Science for Business the sequel is on the horizon? Whether you're a seasoned statistician (or, data scientist), a young aspiring novice, or an adventurous business person looking to expand his/her horizons, Data Science for Business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett is well worth the price of admission and the reading time you'll invest. Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett state, "[i]deally, we envision a book that any data scientist would give to his collaborators…" I'll do them one better, I'm giving it to my daughter!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #47,967 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #33 in Econometrics & Economic Statistics #36 in Business Information Management #73 in Databases & Big Data |
| Customer reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (907) |
| Dimensions  | 17.78 x 2.29 x 23.34 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 1449361323 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1449361327 |
| Item weight  | 680 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 413 pages |
| Publication date  | 17 September 2013 |
| Publisher  | O'Reilly Media |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by T***E on 11 August 2014*

Muy bueno. Explica algunas técnicas pero me ha gustado sobretodo por como explica los fundamentos. Un bue libro para empezar con el tema del data science....

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by T***D on 7 March 2015*

Data Science for Business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett is a very important book about data mining and data analytic thinking. In 1971, Abbie Hoffman shocked the world when he demanded hippie readers (at the time, a likely oxymoron) "Steal This Book". While I wouldn't go so far as to encourage current and future data scientists to shoplift, I will demand that they READ THIS BOOK! Not long ago, data was difficult and expensive to come by. Today, we're living in a world of far too much data, vast amounts of cheap computing power, and way too many poorly defined questions. Mix them all together and you're guaranteed to make a mess. Going from data dearth to plethora presents substantive issues. In business, the balance between gut feel decision-making and analysis paralysis is changing, rapidly. Whether it moves too far from gut to paralysis, only time will tell. Through Data Science for Business, Provost and Fawcett offer practitioners a guide to equilibrium. Read this book and you'll find yourself moving briskly down the road towards data analytic enlightenment. While not highly technical, the authors covers each topic with enough rigor to appreciate the tools being presented and the insights being offered. From the outset, the authors are clear about the book's objectives: "The primary goals of this book are to help you view business problems from a data perspective and understand principles of extracting useful knowledge from data. There is fundamental structure to data-analytic thinking, and basic principals that should be understood. There are also particular areas where intuition, creativity, common sense, and domain knowledge must be brought to bear… As you get better at data-analytic thinking you will develop intuition as to how and where to apply creativity and domain knowledge." This paragraph makes me think of all those undergrad and graduate students studying Statistics at Universities all over the world, my daughter included, who are being bombarded by one math or statistics class after another (Calculus III, Math Stat I and II, Linear Algebra, etc.). Yet, far too often, they enter the real world lacking "data analytic thinking" or a sense of "basic principals" They do, however, have a sense of being overwhelmed and under prepared. The epic battle between "frequentists" and "Bayesians", takes a back seat to what should be the real controversy in statistics departments around the world, the balance between "application" and "theory". The book's "primary goals" should be the walking orders of every statistics program at any college or university anywhere. From the outset (page 2), the authors state, "Data mining is a craft. It involves the application of a substantial amount of science and technology, but the proper application still involves art as well." Absolutely true! It's great to read this stuff! This is followed by a concise discussion of CRISP-DM, a well-defined data mining process, whose concepts are elementary, essential, and integral to the responsible, proper, and successful practice of data mining. From this point on, the authors proceed to accomplish their primary goals. They present such topics as predictive modeling, correlation, classification, clustering, regression, logistic regression, linear discriminants, and much more. Their presentations are user friendly, their real world examples are interesting, and their guidance and insights are extremely valuable. My criticisms are limited to their website. The Data Science for Business site leaves me wanting more real world examples to enjoy, access to more resources and tools of the trade, more references to peruse, and a more rigorous approach to some of the solutions. Perhaps Data Science for Business the sequel is on the horizon? Whether you're a seasoned statistician (or, data scientist), a young aspiring novice, or an adventurous business person looking to expand his/her horizons, Data Science for Business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett is well worth the price of admission and the reading time you'll invest. Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett state, "[i]deally, we envision a book that any data scientist would give to his collaborators…" I'll do them one better, I'm giving it to my daughter!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by P***N on 6 March 2018*

Highly recommended book for those who wnat to hands on data science and business principles of machine learning

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