Foreword / by Gareth James -- Foreword / by Ravi Bapna -- Preface to the Python edition -- Overview of the data mining process -- Data visualization -- Dimension reduction -- Evaluating predictive performance -- Multiple linear regression -- k-nearest neighbors (kNN) -- The naive Bayes...

"This book provides comprehensive information on data analytics. It begins with a preliminary introduction and overview of the data mining process in Part I. In Part II the authors move on to discuss data exploration and dimension reduction. Part III covers performance evaluation and Part IV...