Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications Book by Laura Igual and Santi Seg

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts from statistics, machine/deep learning and responsible data science, useful techniques for network analysis and natural language processing, and practical applications of data science such as recommender systems or sentiment analysis

Topics and features:

• Provides numerous practical case studies using real-world data throughout the book
• Supports understanding through hands-on experience of solving data science problems using Python
• Describes concepts, techniques and tools for statistical analysis, machine learning, graph analysis, natural language processing, deep learning and responsible data science
• Reviews a range of applications of data science, including recommender systems and sentiment analysis of text data
• Provides supplementary code resources and data at an associated website