Qualitative and quantitative techniques to apply decision analysis to real-world decision problems, supported by sound mathematics, best practices, soft skills, and more With substantive illustrations based on the authors’ personal experiences throughout, Handbook of Decision Analysis describes the philosophy, knowledge, science, and art of decision analysis. Key insights from decision analysis applications and behavioral decision analysis research are presented, and numerous decision analysis textbooks, technical books, and research papers are referenced for comprehensive coverage. This book does not introduce new decision analysis mathematical theory, but rather ensures the reader can understand and use the most common mathematics and best practices, allowing them to apply rigorous decision analysis with confidence. The material is supported by examples and solution steps using Microsoft Excel and includes many challenging real-world problems. Given the increase in the availability of data due to the development of products that deliver huge amounts of data, and the development of data science techniques and academic programs, a new theme of this Second Edition is the use of decision analysis techniques with big data and data analytics. Written by a team of highly qualified professionals and academics, Handbook of Decision Analysis includes information on: Behavioral decision-making insights, decision framing opportunities, collaboration with stakeholders, information assessment, and decision analysis modeling techniques Principles of value creation through designing alternatives, clear value/risk tradeoffs, and decision implementation Qualitative and quantitative techniques for each key decision analysis task, as opposed to presenting one technique for all decisions. Stakeholder analysis, decision hierarchies, and influence diagrams to frame descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics decision problems to ensure implementation success Handbook of Decision Analysis is a highly valuable textbook, reference, and/or refresher for students and decision professionals in business, management science, engineering, engineering management, operations management, mathematics, and statistics who want to increase the breadth and depth of their technical and soft skills for success when faced with a professional or personal decision.

Time Series Analysis with Spark provides a practical introduction to leveraging Apache Spark and Databricks for time series analysis. You'll learn to prepare, model, and deploy robust and scalable time series solutions for real-world applications. From data preparation to advanced generative AI techniques, this guide prepares you to excel in big data analytics. What this Book will help me do Understand the core concepts and architectures of Apache Spark for time series analysis. Learn to clean, organize, and prepare time series data for big data environments. Gain expertise in choosing, building, and training various time series models tailored to specific projects. Master techniques to scale your models in production using Spark and Databricks. Explore the integration of advanced technologies such as generative AI to enhance predictions and derive insights. Author(s) Yoni Ramaswami, a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks, has extensive experience in data engineering and AI solutions. With a focus on creating innovative big data and AI strategies across industries, Yoni authored this book to empower professionals to efficiently handle time series data. Yoni's approachable style ensures that both foundational concepts and advanced techniques are accessible to readers. Who is it for? This book is ideal for data engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, and analysts interested in enhancing their expertise in time series analysis using Apache Spark and Databricks. Whether you're new to time series or looking to refine your skills, you'll find both foundational insights and advanced practices explained clearly. A basic understanding of Spark is helpful but not required.

Through the application of cutting-edge techniques like Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science, it is possible to extract insights from massive datasets. These methodologies are crucial in enabling informed decision-making and driving transformative advancements across many fields, industries, and domains. This book offers an overview of latest tools, methods and approaches while also highlighting their practical use through various applications and case studies.

The book analyzes the combination of intelligent data analytics with the intricacies of biological data that has become a crucial factor for innovation and growth in the fast-changing field of bioinformatics and biomedical systems. Intelligent Data Analytics for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Systems delves into the transformative nature of data analytics for bioinformatics and biomedical research. It offers a thorough examination of advanced techniques, methodologies, and applications that utilize intelligence to improve results in the healthcare sector. With the exponential growth of data in these domains, the book explores how computational intelligence and advanced analytic techniques can be harnessed to extract insights, drive informed decisions, and unlock hidden patterns from vast datasets. From genomic analysis to disease diagnostics and personalized medicine, the book aims to showcase intelligent approaches that enable researchers, clinicians, and data scientists to unravel complex biological processes and make significant strides in understanding human health and diseases. This book is divided into three sections, each focusing on computational intelligence and data sets in biomedical systems. The first section discusses the fundamental concepts of computational intelligence and big data in the context of bioinformatics. This section emphasizes data mining, pattern recognition, and knowledge discovery for bioinformatics applications. The second part talks about computational intelligence and big data in biomedical systems. Based on how these advanced techniques are utilized in the system, this section discusses how personalized medicine and precision healthcare enable treatment based on individual data and genetic profiles. The last section investigates the challenges and future directions of computational intelligence and big data in bioinformatics and biomedical systems. This section concludes with discussions on the potential impact of computational intelligence on addressing global healthcare challenges. Audience Intelligent Data Analytics for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Systems is primarily targeted to professionals and researchers in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, and healthcare. The book will also suit academicians, students, and professionals working in pharmaceuticals and interpreting biomedical data.

Introductory statistics textbook with a focus on data science topics such as prediction, correlation, and data exploration Statistics for Data Science and Analytics is a comprehensive guide to statistical analysis using Python, presenting important topics useful for data science such as prediction, correlation, and data exploration. The authors provide an introduction to statistical science and big data, as well as an overview of Python data structures and operations. A range of statistical techniques are presented with their implementation in Python, including hypothesis testing, probability, exploratory data analysis, categorical variables, surveys and sampling, A/B testing, and correlation. The text introduces binary classification, a foundational element of machine learning, validation of statistical models by applying them to holdout data, and probability and inference via the easy-to-understand method of resampling and the bootstrap instead of using a myriad of “kitchen sink” formulas. Regression is taught both as a tool for explanation and for prediction. This book is informed by the authors’ experience designing and teaching both introductory statistics and machine learning at Statistics.com. Each chapter includes practical examples, explanations of the underlying concepts, and Python code snippets to help readers apply the techniques themselves. Statistics for Data Science and Analytics includes information on sample topics such as: Int, float, and string data types, numerical operations, manipulating strings, converting data types, and advanced data structures like lists, dictionaries, and sets Experiment design via randomizing, blinding, and before-after pairing, as well as proportions and percents when handling binary data Specialized Python packages like numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn and statsmodels—the workhorses of data science—and how to get the most value from them Statistical versus practical significance, random number generators, functions for code reuse, and binomial and normal probability distributions Written by and for data science instructors, Statistics for Data Science and Analytics is an excellent learning resource for data science instructors prescribing a required intro stats course for their programs, as well as other students and professionals seeking to transition to the data science field.

Dive into the world of data analysis with the Polars Cookbook. This book, ideal for data professionals, covers practical recipes to manipulate, transform, and analyze data using the Python Polars library. You'll learn both the fundamentals and advanced techniques to build efficient and scalable data workflows. What this Book will help me do Master the basics of Python Polars including installation and setup. Perform complex data manipulation like pivoting, grouping, and joining. Handle large-scale time series data for accurate analysis. Understand data integration with libraries like pandas and numpy. Optimize workflows for both on-premise and cloud environments. Author(s) Yuki Kakegawa is an experienced data analytics consultant who has collaborated with companies such as Microsoft and Stanford Health Care. His passion for data led him to create this detailed guide on Polars. His expertise ensures you gain real-world, actionable insights from every chapter. Who is it for? This book is perfect for data analysts, engineers, and scientists eager to enhance their efficiency with Python Polars. If you are familiar with Python and tools like pandas but are new to Polars, this book will upskill you. Whether handling big data or optimizing code for performance, the Polars Cookbook has the guidance you need to succeed.

Dive into DuckDB and start processing gigabytes of data with ease—all with no data warehouse. DuckDB is a cutting-edge SQL database that makes it incredibly easy to analyze big data sets right from your laptop. In DuckDB in Action you’ll learn everything you need to know to get the most out of this awesome tool, keep your data secure on prem, and save you hundreds on your cloud bill. From data ingestion to advanced data pipelines, you’ll learn everything you need to get the most out of DuckDB—all through hands-on examples. Open up DuckDB in Action and learn how to: Read and process data from CSV, JSON and Parquet sources both locally and remote Write analytical SQL queries, including aggregations, common table expressions, window functions, special types of joins, and pivot tables Use DuckDB from Python, both with SQL and its "Relational"-API, interacting with databases but also data frames Prepare, ingest and query large datasets Build cloud data pipelines Extend DuckDB with custom functionality Pragmatic and comprehensive, DuckDB in Action introduces the DuckDB database and shows you how to use it to solve common data workflow problems. You won’t need to read through pages of documentation—you’ll learn as you work. Get to grips with DuckDB's unique SQL dialect, learning to seamlessly load, prepare, and analyze data using SQL queries. Extend DuckDB with both Python and built-in tools such as MotherDuck, and gain practical insights into building robust and automated data pipelines. About the Technology DuckDB makes data analytics fast and fun! You don’t need to set up a Spark or run a cloud data warehouse just to process a few hundred gigabytes of data. DuckDB is easily embeddable in any data analytics application, runs on a laptop, and processes data from almost any source, including JSON, CSV, Parquet, SQLite and Postgres. About the Book DuckDB in Action guides you example-by-example from setup, through your first SQL query, to advanced topics like building data pipelines and embedding DuckDB as a local data store for a Streamlit web app. You’ll explore DuckDB’s handy SQL extensions, get to grips with aggregation, analysis, and data without persistence, and use Python to customize DuckDB. A hands-on project accompanies each new topic, so you can see DuckDB in action. What's Inside Prepare, ingest and query large datasets Build cloud data pipelines Extend DuckDB with custom functionality Fast-paced SQL recap: From simple queries to advanced analytics About the Reader For data pros comfortable with Python and CLI tools. About the Authors Mark Needham is a blogger and video creator at @‌LearnDataWithMark. Michael Hunger leads product innovation for the Neo4j graph database. Michael Simons is a Java Champion, author, and Engineer at Neo4j. Quotes I use DuckDB every day, and I still learned a lot about how DuckDB makes things that are hard in most databases easy! - Jordan Tigani, Founder, MotherDuck An excellent resource! Unlocks possibilities for storing, processing, analyzing, and summarizing data at the edge using DuckDB. - Pramod Sadalage, Director, Thoughtworks Clear and accessible. A comprehensive resource for harnessing the power of DuckDB for both novices and experienced professionals. - Qiusheng Wu, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Excellent! The book all we ducklings have been waiting for! - Gunnar Morling, Decodable

This thoroughly updated and expanded second edition covers traditional nonparametric methods and rank-based analyses. Two new chapters covering multivariate analyses and big data have been added. Core classical nonparametrics chapters on one- and two-sample problems have been expanded

This book highlights how optimized big data applications can be used for patient monitoring and clinical diagnosis. In fact, IoT-based applications are data-driven and mostly employ modern optimization techniques. The book also explores challenges, opportunities, and future research directions, discussing the stages of data collection and pre-processing, as well as the associated challenges and issues in data handling and setup.

Kibana 8.x - A Quick Start Guide to Data Analysis is an essential resource for anyone wanting to harness the robust capabilities of Kibana to analyze, visualize, and make sense of their data. Through clear explanations and practical exercises, this guide breaks down topics like creating dashboards, exploring datasets, and configuring Kibana's powerful features. What this Book will help me do Understand Kibana's interface and functionalities to manage Elasticsearch data. Learn how to create intuitive visualizations and customize dashboards. Explore features such as data discovery and real-time updates for analytics. Optimize and query datasets using ESQL and detailed analytics techniques. Master the process of embedding dashboards and exporting insights. Author(s) None Shah is an experienced data analytics professional with a deep understanding of the Elastic Stack, including Kibana and Elasticsearch. Having spent years working on big data projects, Shah is dedicated to helping technologists turn data into actionable insights. Her writing aims to simplify complex concepts into achievable learning milestones. Who is it for? This book is ideal for data analysts, data engineers, and anyone working extensively with Elasticsearch datasets. If you aim to gain hands-on experience with building interactive dashboards and visualizing data trends, this book is tailored for you. A foundational understanding of Elasticsearch would be beneficial but is not strictly required. Perfect for advancing decision-making with data insights.

Migrate from pandas and scikit-learn to PySpark to handle vast amounts of data and achieve faster data processing time. This book will show you how to make this transition by adapting your skills and leveraging the similarities in syntax, functionality, and interoperability between these tools. Distributed Machine Learning with PySpark offers a roadmap to data scientists considering transitioning from small data libraries (pandas/scikit-learn) to big data processing and machine learning with PySpark. You will learn to translate Python code from pandas/scikit-learn to PySpark to preprocess large volumes of data and build, train, test, and evaluate popular machine learning algorithms such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, support vector machines, Naïve Bayes, and neural networks. After completing this book, you will understand the foundational concepts of data preparation and machine learning and will have the skills necessary toapply these methods using PySpark, the industry standard for building scalable ML data pipelines. What You Will Learn Master the fundamentals of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, NLP, and recommender systems Understand the differences between PySpark, scikit-learn, and pandas Perform linear regression, logistic regression, and decision tree regression with pandas, scikit-learn, and PySpark Distinguish between the pipelines of PySpark and scikit-learn Who This Book Is For Data scientists, data engineers, and machine learning practitioners who have some familiarity with Python, but who are new to distributed machine learning and the PySpark framework.

Fundamentals of Data Science: Theory and Practice presents basic and advanced concepts in data science along with real-life applications. The book provides students, researchers and professionals at different levels a good understanding of the concepts of data science, machine learning, data mining and analytics. Users will find the authors’ research experiences and achievements in data science applications, along with in-depth discussions on topics that are essential for data science projects, including pre-processing, that is carried out before applying predictive and descriptive data analysis tasks and proximity measures for numeric, categorical and mixed-type data. The book's authors include a systematic presentation of many predictive and descriptive learning algorithms, including recent developments that have successfully handled large datasets with high accuracy. In addition, a number of descriptive learning tasks are included. Presents the foundational concepts of data science along with advanced concepts and real-life applications for applied learning Includes coverage of a number of key topics such as data quality and pre-processing, proximity and validation, predictive data science, descriptive data science, ensemble learning, association rule mining, Big Data analytics, as well as incremental and distributed learning Provides updates on key applications of data science techniques in areas such as Computational Biology, Network Intrusion Detection, Natural Language Processing, Software Clone Detection, Financial Data Analysis, and Scientific Time Series Data Analysis Covers computer program code for implementing descriptive and predictive algorithms

This book is your practical and comprehensive guide to learning Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for data science, using only the free tier services offered by the platform. Data science and machine learning are increasingly becoming critical to businesses of all sizes, and the cloud provides a powerful platform for these applications. GCP offers a range of data science services that can be used to store, process, and analyze large datasets, and train and deploy machine learning models. The book is organized into seven chapters covering various topics such as GCP account setup, Google Colaboratory, Big Data and Machine Learning, Data Visualization and Business Intelligence, Data Processing and Transformation, Data Analytics and Storage, and Advanced Topics. Each chapter provides step-by-step instructions and examples illustrating how to use GCP services for data science and big data projects. Readers will learn how to set up a Google Colaboratory account and run Jupyternotebooks, access GCP services and data from Colaboratory, use BigQuery for data analytics, and deploy machine learning models using Vertex AI. The book also covers how to visualize data using Looker Data Studio, run data processing pipelines using Google Cloud Dataflow and Dataprep, and store data using Google Cloud Storage and SQL. What You Will Learn Set up a GCP account and project Explore BigQuery and its use cases, including machine learning Understand Google Cloud AI Platform and its capabilities Use Vertex AI for training and deploying machine learning models Explore Google Cloud Dataproc and its use cases for big data processing Create and share data visualizations and reports with Looker Data Studio Explore Google Cloud Dataflow and its use cases for batch and stream data processing Run data processing pipelines on Cloud Dataflow Explore Google Cloud Storageand its use cases for data storage Get an introduction to Google Cloud SQL and its use cases for relational databases Get an introduction to Google Cloud Pub/Sub and its use cases for real-time data streaming Who This Book Is For Data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analysts who want to learn how to use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for their data science and big data projects

The 2nd edition of Consumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a consumer behaviour textbook for the new marketing reality. In a world of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, this key text reviews the issues, research and concepts essential for navigating this new terrain.

A step-by-step guide for business leaders who need to manage successful big data projects Leading in Analytics: The Critical Tasks for Executives to Master in the Age of Big Data takes you through the entire process of guiding an analytics initiative from inception to execution. You’ll learn which aspects of the project to pay attention to, the right questions to ask, and how to keep the project team focused on its mission to produce relevant and valuable project. As an executive, you can’t control every aspect of the process. But if you focus on high-impact factors that you can control, you can ensure an effective outcome. This book describes those factors and offers practical insight on how to get them right. Drawn from best-practice research in the field of analytics, the Manageable Tasks described in this book are specific to the goal of implementing big data tools at an enterprise level. A dream team of analytics and business experts have contributed their knowledge to show you how to choose the right business problem to address, put together the right team, gather the right data, select the right tools, and execute your strategic plan to produce an actionable result. Become an analytics-savvy executive with this valuable book. Ensure the success of analytics initiatives, maximize ROI, and draw value from big data Learn to define success and failure in analytics and big data projects Set your organization up for analytics success by identifying problems that have big data solutions Bring together the people, the tools, and the strategies that are right for the job By learning to pay attention to critical tasks in every analytics project, non-technical executives and strategic planners can guide their organizations to measurable results.

This book illustrates how data can be useful in solving business problems. It explores various analytics techniques for using data to discover hidden patterns and relationships, predict future outcomes, optimize efficiency and improve the performance of organizations. You’ll learn how to analyze data by applying concepts of statistics, probability theory, and linear algebra. In this new edition, both R and Python are used to demonstrate these analyses. Practical Business Analytics Using R and Python also features new chapters covering databases, SQL, Neural networks, Text Analytics, and Natural Language Processing.Part one begins with an introduction to analytics, the foundations required to perform data analytics, and explains different analytics terms and concepts such as databases and SQL, basic statistics, probability theory, and data exploration. Part two introduces predictive models using statistical machine learning and discusses concepts like regression, classification, and neural networks. Part three covers two of the most popular unsupervised learning techniques, clustering and association mining, as well as text mining and natural language processing (NLP). The book concludes with an overview of big data analytics, R and Python essentials for analytics including libraries such as pandas and NumPy. Upon completing this book, you will understand how to improve business outcomes by leveraging R and Python for data analytics. What You Will Learn Master the mathematical foundations required for business analytics Understand various analytics models and data mining techniques such as regression, supervised machine learning algorithms for modeling, unsupervised modeling techniques, and how to choose the correct algorithm for analysis in any given task Use R and Python to develop descriptive models, predictive models, and optimize models Interpret and recommend actions based on analytical model outcomes Who This Book Is For Software professionals and developers, managers, and executives who want to understand and learn the fundamentals of analytics using R and Python.

FUZZY COMPUTING IN DATA SCIENCE This book comprehensively explains how to use various fuzzy-based models to solve real-time industrial challenges. The book provides information about fundamental aspects of the field and explores the myriad applications of fuzzy logic techniques and methods. It presents basic conceptual considerations and case studies of applications of fuzzy computation. It covers the fundamental concepts and techniques for system modeling, information processing, intelligent system design, decision analysis, statistical analysis, pattern recognition, automated learning, system control, and identification. The book also discusses the combination of fuzzy computation techniques with other computational intelligence approaches such as neural and evolutionary computation. Audience Researchers and students in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, and information and communication technology.

BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE IN BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS Provides coverage of developments and state-of-the-art methods in the broad and diversified data analytics field and applicable areas such as big data analytics, data mining, and machine intelligence in biomedical and health informatics. The novel applications of Big Data Analytics and machine intelligence in the biomedical and healthcare sector is an emerging field comprising computer science, medicine, biology, natural environmental engineering, and pattern recognition. Biomedical and health informatics is a new era that brings tremendous opportunities and challenges due to the plentifully available biomedical data and the aim is to ensure high-quality and efficient healthcare by analyzing the data. The 12 chapters in??Big Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence in Biomedical and Health Informatics??cover the latest advances and developments in health informatics, data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. They have been organized with respect to the similarity of topics addressed, ranging from issues pertaining to the Internet of Things (IoT) for biomedical engineering and health informatics, computational intelligence for medical data processing, and Internet of Medical Things??(IoMT). New researchers and practitioners working in the field will benefit from reading the book as they can quickly ascertain the best performing methods and compare the different approaches. Audience Researchers and practitioners working in the fields of biomedicine, health informatics, big data analytics, Internet of Things, and machine learning.

Examine select retail business scenarios to learn basic mathematics, as well as probability and statistics required to analyze big data. This book focuses on useful and imperative applied analytics needed to build a retail business and explains mathematical concepts essential for decision making and communication in retail business environments. Everyone is a buyer or seller of products these days whether through a physical department store, Amazon, or their own business website. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding and managing the mechanics of markups, markdowns, and basic statistics, math and computers that will help in your retail business. You'll tackle what to do with data once it is has accumulated and see how to arrange the data using descriptive statistics, primarily means, median, and mode, and then how to read the corresponding charts and graphs. Analytics for Retail is your path to creating visualrepresentations that powerfully communicate information and drive decisions. What You'll Learn Review standard statistical concepts to enhance your understanding of retail data Understand the concepts of markups, markdowns and profit margins, and probability Conduct an A/B testing email campaign with all the relevant analytics calculated and explained Who This Book Is For This is a primer book for anyone in the field of retail that needs to learn or refresh their skills or for a reader who wants to move in their company to a more analytical position.

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability in the field of digital transformation and tourism.