Predictive Analytics and Data Mining

Foreword

Everybody can be a data scientist. And everybody should be. This book shows you why everyone should be a data scientist and how you can get there. In today’s world, it should be embarrassing to make any complex decision without understanding the available data first. Being a “data-driven organization” is the state of the art and often the best way to improve a business outcome significantly. Consequently we have seen a dramatic change with respect to the tools supporting us to get to this success quickly. It has only been a few years that building a data warehouse and creating reports or dashboards on top of the data warehouse has become the norm in larger organizations. Technological advances have made this process easier than ever and ...