Fundamentals of Data Science

Fundamentals of Data Science: Theory and Practice presents basic and advanced concepts in data science along with real-life applications. The book provides students, researchers and professionals at different levels a good understanding of the concepts of data science, machine learning, data mining and analytics. Users will find the authors’ research experiences and achievements in data science applications, along with in-depth discussions on topics that are essential for data science projects, including pre-processing, that is carried out before applying predictive and descriptive data analysis tasks and proximity measures for numeric, categorical and mixed-type data. The book's authors include a systematic presentation of many predictive and descriptive learning algorithms, including recent developments that have successfully handled large datasets with high accuracy. In addition, a number of descriptive learning tasks are included.

Dr. Jugal Kalita received his BTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, his MS degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His research interests include machine learning and its applications to areas such as natural language processing, intrusion detection, and bioinformatics. He is the author of more than 250 research articles in reputed conferences and journals and has authored four books, including Network Traffic Anomaly Detection and Prevention from Springer, Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Statistical and Machine Learning Perspective from Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, and Recent Developments in Machine Learning and Data Analytics from Springer. He has received multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants Dr. Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Tezpur University. Currently, he is a Senior Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Tezpur University, and also the Dean of Academic Affairs. Dr. Bhattacharyya’s major research interests are Machine Learning, Cyber Security, and Bioinformatics, and in all these three fields his contributions are significant. Dr. Bhattacharyya has published more than 260 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and selective conference proceedings. Dr. Bhattacharyya has authored/edited 18 reference books on machine learning and its applications, including Network Traffic Anomaly Detection and Prevention from Springer, Gene Expression Data Analysis: A Statistical and Machine Learning Perspective from Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Data Mining Techniques and Its Application in Medical Imagery from VDM, and Clustering Techniques in Spatial Data Analysis from Lambert Academic Publishing. Dr. Bhattacharyya is on the review panel for most major research grants reviewed by the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, and several international funding agencies. Machine learning research at Tezpur University, led by Dr. Bhattacharyya, has been recognized by the Indian Ministry of Education as a Centre of Excellence, one among twenty in India. Dr. Bhattacharyya is a fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, and Institution of Engineers, and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is also on the Editorial/Advisory Boards of several international journals, conferences, and workshops Swarup Roy is a Professor in Computer Science at Sikkim (Central) University, Gangtok. He received his M.Tech. and PhD (Comp. Sc. & Engg.) from Tezpur (Central) University. He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. His research interest includes Machine Learning, Data Science, Network Science, Intrusion Detection and Computational Biol