30-Second Data Science
Published on 29. September 2020
160 pages
978-1-78240-894-9 (ISBN)
Description
30-Second Data Science covers 50 key elements in the field of data-gathering from basic to ethics, explained clearly and concisely.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
27,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78240-894-9 (9781782408949)
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Liberty Vittert
30-Second Data Science
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09/2020
Ivy Press
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Liberty Vittert is a Professor of the Practice of Data Science at the Olin Business School at the Washington University in St Louis. She is a regular TV and radio contributor to many news organizations, including Fox News Channel, Popular Science, Newsweek, Business Insider, MarketWatch and The Conversation. As a Royal Statistical Society Ambassador, BBC Expert Woman and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, Liberty works to communicate statistics and data to the public. She is also an Associate Editor for the Harvard Data Science Review and is on the board for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as well at the HIVE, a UN Refugee Agency data initiative for refugees.
Content
- Intro
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Basics
- GLOSSARY
- Data Collection
- How We Visualize Data
- Learning From Data
- Tools
- Regression
- Profile: Francis Galton
- Clustering
- Statistics & Modelling
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks & Deep Learning
- Uncertainty
- GLOSSARY
- Sampling
- Correlation
- Regression to the Mean
- Confidence Intervals
- Sampling Bias
- Bias in Algorithms
- Profile: George Box
- Statistical Significance
- Overfitting
- Science
- GLOSSARY
- CERN & the Higgs Boson
- Astrophysics
- CRISPR & Data
- The Million Genome Project
- Profile: Gertrude Cox
- Climate Change
- Curing Cancer
- Epidemiology
- Society
- GLOSSARY
- Surveillance
- Security
- Privacy
- Profile: Florence Nightingale
- Vote Science
- Health
- IBM's Watson & Google's DeepMind
- Business
- GLOSSARY
- Industry 4.0
- Energy Supply & Distribution
- Logistics
- Profile: Herman Hollerith
- Marketing
- Financial Modelling
- New Product Development
- Pleasure
- GLOSSARY
- Shopping
- Dating
- Music
- Profile: Ada Lovelace
- Sports
- Social Media
- Gaming
- Gambling
- The Future
- GLOSSARY
- Personalized Medicine
- Mental Health
- Smart Homes
- Profile: John W. Tukey
- Trustworthiness Score
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Regulation
- Ethics
- Resources
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Acknowledgements
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