Tag: data science

Data Science for Business – A serious guide for those who need to know – #bigdata #bookreview

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Data Science for Business What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) This is not an introductory text for casual readers curious about the hoopla over data science and Big Data. And you definitely won’t find code here for simple screen scrapers written … Continue reading Data Science for Business – A serious guide for those who need to know – #bigdata #bookreview

Getting Started with D3 – A guide to working with data-driven documents – #bookreview #javascript

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Getting Started with D3 Mike Dewar (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) This focused, 58-page how-to guide introduces the basics of D3, a JavaScript library written by Mike Bostock. The D3 library, a free download, can be used to manipulate documents based on data. According to the Data-Driven Documents website, “D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a … Continue reading Getting Started with D3 – A guide to working with data-driven documents – #bookreview #javascript