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Data Analytics Made Easy

By : Andrea De Mauro
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Book Image

Data Analytics Made Easy

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By: Andrea De Mauro

Overview of this book

Data Analytics Made Easy is an accessible beginner’s guide for anyone working with data. The book interweaves four key elements: Data visualizations and storytelling – Tired of people not listening to you and ignoring your results? Don’t worry; chapters 7 and 8 show you how to enhance your presentations and engage with your managers and co-workers. Learn to create focused content with a well-structured story behind it to captivate your audience. Automating your data workflows – Improve your productivity by automating your data analysis. This book introduces you to the open-source platform, KNIME Analytics Platform. You’ll see how to use this no-code and free-to-use software to create a KNIME workflow of your data processes just by clicking and dragging components. Machine learning – Data Analytics Made Easy describes popular machine learning approaches in a simplified and visual way before implementing these machine learning models using KNIME. You’ll not only be able to understand data scientists’ machine learning models; you’ll be able to challenge them and build your own. Creating interactive dashboards – Follow the book’s simple methodology to create professional-looking dashboards using Microsoft Power BI, giving users the capability to slice and dice data and drill down into the results.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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And now?
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Index

Introducing artificial intelligence and machine learning

Can machines think? This is what English polymath and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing asked himself in his seminal 1950 paper that would lay the groundwork for AI. Although Turing does not use the term "artificial intelligence" (it would be introduced as a research discipline only six years later), he was convinced that machines would eventually compete with human beings in all purely intellectual fields.

Using technology devices to extend and partially replace human intellect was not a new quest. Back in the 17th century, French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline (Figure 4.1), a fully working mechanical computer that could do addition and subtraction of numbers entered by rotating its dials.

Figure 4.1: Pascal's arithmetic machine, a.k.a. the Pascaline. From the top left, clockwise: an original device built in 1652; a view of the underlying system of gears; the detailed...