Data mining for Business?

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Brief

Learn how to implement a variety of popular data mining algorithms in Python (a free and open-source software) to tackle business problems and opportunities. This is the sixth version of this successful text, and the first using Python. It covers both statistical and machine learning algorithms for prediction, classification, visualization, dimension reduction, recommender systems, clustering, text mining and network analysis. It also includes:  A new co-author, Peter Gedeck, who brings both experience teaching business analytics courses using Python, and expertise in the application of machine learning methods to the drug-discovery process  A new section on ethical issues in data mining  Updates and new material based on feedback from instructors teaching MBA, undergraduate, diploma and executive courses, and from their students  More than a dozen case studies demonstrating applications for the data mining techniques described  End-of-chapter exercises that help readers gauge and expand their comprehension and competency of the material presented  A companion website with more than two dozen data sets, and instructor materials including exercise solutions,  PowerPoint slides, and case solutions