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Published inJan 2022
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Roy Jafari
Roy Jafari
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Roy Jafari

Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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The book assumes basic programming skills such as working with variables, conditionals, and loops, along with beginner-level knowledge of Python. Other than that, you can start your journey from the beginning of the book and start learning.

The Jupyter Notebook is an excellent UI for learning and practicing programming and data analytics. It can be downloaded and installed easily using Anaconda Navigator. Visit this page for installation: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/navigator/install/.

While Anaconda has most of the modules that the book uses already installed, you will need to install a few other modules such as Seaborn and Graphviz. Don't worry; when the time comes, the book will instruct you on how to go about these installations.

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code from the book's GitHub repository (a link is available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

While learning, keep a file of your own code from each chapter. This learning repository can be used in the future for deeper learning and real projects. The Jupyter Notebook is especially great for this purpose as it allows you to take notes along with the code.

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Roy Jafari

Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
Read more about Roy Jafari