Practical Data Science

A Guide to Building the Technology Stack for Turning Data Lakes into Business Assets



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Price$28.98 - $46.82
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AuthorAndreas Francois Vermeulen
PublisherApress
Published2018
Pages805
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-101484230531
ISBN-139781484230534
EBook Hardcover Paperback

Learn how to build a data science technology stack and perform good data science with repeatable methods. You will learn how to turn data lakes into business assets.

The data science technology stack demonstrated in Practical Data Science is built from components in general use in the industry. Data scientist Andreas Vermeulen demonstrates in detail how to build and provision a technology stack to yield repeatable results. He shows you how to apply practical methods to extract actionable business knowledge from data lakes consisting of data from a polyglot of data types and dimensions.

Become fluent in the essential concepts and terminology of data science and data engineering; Build and use a technology stack that meets industry criteria; Master the methods for retrieving actionable business knowledge; Coordinate the handling of polyglot data types in a data lake for repeatable results.



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