"This book provides an analysis of large data in the field of classification and clustering by presenting algorithms and comparative analysis in the form of their effectiveness and efficiency. It covers topics such as handling large data with conventional data mining, machine learning algorithms...

Intelligent data analysis techniques offer powerful solutions to collecting and analyzing vast quantities of environmental and economic data, which lead to better decision making for sustainable development. This volume is the first to discuss the treatment of intelligent data analysis...

Preface -- 1 Ranking -- 2 Online Learning -- 3 Recommendation Systems -- 4 Classification -- 5 Clustering -- 6 Linear Regression -- 7 Sparse Recovery -- 8 Neural Networks -- 9 Decision Trees -- 10 Solutions.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Chapter 1 Overview of Predictive Analytics; What Is Analytics?; What Is Predictive Analytics?; Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning; Parametric vs. Non-Parametric Models; Business Intelligence; Predictive Analytics vs. Business Intelligence; Do Predictive...

Introduction -- Logical Foundations of Social Science Research -- Overview on Decision Tree Induction -- Using Decision Tree Induction for Theory Development -- A Hybrid Decision Tree-based Method for Exploring Cumulative Abnormal Returns -- An Ethnographic Decision Tree Modeling: An Exploration...

Learn the art and science of predictive analytics - techniques that get results Predictive analytics is what translates big data into meaningful, usable business information. Written by a leading expert in the field, this guide examines the science of the underlying algorithms as well as the...