Foreword

Ingo Mierswa, Founder, RapidMiner Inc., Massachusetts, USA

A lot has happened since the first edition of this book was published in 2014. There is hardly a day where there is no news on data science, machine learning, or artificial intelligence in the media. It is interesting that many of those news articles have a skeptical, if not an even negative tone. All this underlines two things: data science and machine learning are finally becoming mainstream. And people know shockingly little about it. Readers of this book will certainly do better in this regard. It continues to be a valuable resource to not only educate about how to use data science in practice, but also how the fundamental concepts work.

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