Foreman, John W.

Data smart : using data science to transform information into insight / John W. Foreman. - Indianapolis : Wiley, [2014] - xx, 409 pages : billustrations (black and white) ; c24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction xiii 1 Everything You Ever Needed to Know about Spreadsheets but Were Too Afraid to Ask 1 2 Cluster Analysis Part I: Using K-Means to Segment Your Customer Base 29 3 Naive Bayes and the Incredible Lightness of Being an Idiot 77 4 Optimization Modeling: Because That Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice Ain\'t Gonna Blend Itself 101 5 Cluster Analysis Part II: Network Graphs and Community Detection 155 6 The Granddaddy of Supervised Artificial Intelligence--Regression 205 7 Ensemble Models: A Whole Lot of Bad Pizza 251 8 Forecasting: Breathe Easy; You Can\'t Win 285 9 Outlier Detection: Just Because They\'re Odd Doesn\'t Mean They\'re Unimportant 335 10 Moving from Spreadsheets into R 361 Conclusion

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Data mining.
Web sites--Design.
Web usage mining.

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