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Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python
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Hands-On Predictive Analytics with Python

by Alvaro Fuentes
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
330 pages
8h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is predictive analytics?

With the exponentially growing amounts of data the world has been observing, especially in the last decade, the number of related technologies and terms also started growing at a faster rate. Suddenly, people in industry, media, and academia started talking (sometimes maybe too much) about big data, data mining, analytics, machine learning, data science, data engineering, statistical learning, artificial intelligence, and many other related terms, and of course one of those terms is predictive analytics, the subject of this book.

There is still a lot of confusion about these terms and exactly what they mean, because they are relatively new. As there is some overlap between them, for our purposes, instead of attempting ...

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