Data Science Programming All-in-One For Dummies

Introduction

Data science is a term that the media has chosen to minimize, obfuscate, and sometimes misuse. It involves a lot more than just data and the science of working with data. Today, the world uses data science in all sorts of ways that you might not know about, which is why you need Data Science Programming All-in-One For Dummies.

In the book, you start with both the data and the science of manipulating it, but then you go much further. In addition to seeing how to perform a wide range of analysis, you also delve into making recommendations, classifying real-world objects, analyzing audio, and even creating art.

However, you don’t just learn about amazing new technologies and how to perform common tasks. This book also dispels myths created by people who wish data science were something different than it really is or who don’t understand it at all. A great deal of misinformation swirls around the world today as the media seeks to sensationalize, anthropomorphize, and emotionalize technologies that are, in fact, quite mundane. It’s hard to know what to believe. You find reports that robots are on the cusp of becoming sentient and that the giant tech companies can discover your innermost thoughts simply by reviewing your record of purchases. With this book, you can replace disinformation with solid facts, and you can use those facts to create a strategy for performing data science development tasks.

About This Book

You might find that this book starts off a little slowly ...