Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Discovering, Analyzing, Visualizing and Presenting Data

Data Science & Big Data Analytics educates readers about what Big Data is and how to extract value from it. The book covers methods and technologies required to analyze structured and unstructured datasets, as more individuals and organizations build out their capabilities to analyze Big Data and draw insights from it. Additional focus areas include machine learning, data visualization and presentation skills. The book provides practical foundation level training that enables immediate and effective participation in big data and other analytics projects. It provides grounding in basic and advanced analytic methods and an introduction to big data analytics technology and tools, including MapReduce and Hadoop.