Parallel Computing for Data Science

Preface

Thank you for your interest in this book. I’ve very much enjoyed writing

it, and I hope it turns out to become very useful to you. To set the stage,

there are a few general points of information I wish to present.

Goals:

This book hopefully will live up to its title—Parallel Computing for Data

Science. Unlike almost every other book I’m aware of on parallel comput-

ing, you will not find a single example here dealing with solving partial

differential equations and other applications to physics. This book really is

devoted to applications in data science—whether you define that term to

be statistics, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, ...