TY - BOOK AU - Provost,Foster AU - Fawcett,Tom TI - Data science for business: [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking] SN - 1449361323 (pbk.) PY - 2013/// CY - Sebastopol, Calif. PB - O'Reilly KW - Data mining KW - Big data KW - Information science KW - Business KW - Data processing N1 - Subtitle from cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-366) and index; Introduction : data-analytic thinking -- Business problems and data science solutions -- Introduction to predictive modeling : from correlation to supervised segmentation -- Fitting a model to data -- Overfitting and its avoidance -- Similarity, neighbors, and clusters -- Decision analytic thinking I : what is a good model? -- Visualizing model performance -- Evidence and probabilities -- Representing and mining text -- Decision analytic thinking II : toward analytical engineering -- Other data science tasks and techniques -- Data science and business strategy -- Conclusion ER -