The business analytics world has changed, and Data Scientists are taking over. Business Data Science takes you through the steps of using machine learning to implement best-in-class business data science. Whether you are a business leader with a desire to go deep on data, or an engineer who wants to learn how to apply Machine Learning to business problems, you’ll find the information, insight, and tools you need to flourish in today’s data-driven economy. You’ll learn how to:
- Use the key building blocks of Machine Learning: sparse regularization, out-of-sample validation, and latent factor and topic modeling
- Understand how use ML tools in real world business problems, where causation matters more that correlation
- Solve data science programs by scripting in the R programming language