Practical Predictive Analytics

Summary

This concludes this chapter, and this book. I started off by saying that this was a different kind of predictive analytics book, and I covered many different kinds of topics, from both a technical and conceptual viewpoint. I hope that you have learned a lot from this and that it has given you some new algorithms to use, and has taught you something about some 'older' tools, such as SQL, which are very capable of doing some of the heavy lifting that is sometimes needed. I also tried to emphasis 'small data', metadata, and sampling in the hopes that that will aid you in understand your data better, just by virtue of being able to look at individual pieces separately. I also hope that some of the material in the book will enable you ...