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Nathan Greeneltch
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Nathan Greeneltch

Nathan Greeneltch, PhD is a ML engineer at Intel Corp and resident data mining and analytics expert in the AI consulting group. Hes worked with Python analytics in both the start-up realm and the large-scale manufacturing sector over the course of the last decade. Nathan regularly mentors new hires and engineers fresh to the field of analytics, with impromptu chalk talks and division-wide knowledge-sharing sessions at Intel. In his past life, he was a physical chemist studying surface enhancement of the vibration signals of small molecules; a topic on which he wrote a doctoral thesis while at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Nathan hails from the southeastern United States, with family in equal parts from Arkansas and Florida
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Basic summary statistics

Practitioners in the field of descriptive analytics use a set of four summary statistics to quickly understand a dataset. With practice, you should be able to strengthen your intuition about each one of these statistical measurements. In fact, it's a great place to start with most problem statements that you will face. The four summary statistics are described as follows:

  • Locations: The location or center of the data; this can be measured by the mean (average), median, or mode. The median is the point of delineation in 50% of the data, and the mode is the most occurring points, or largest part of the distribution.
  • Spread: How the data is spread around the center; this can be measured with standard deviation, which sums the average distance from the mean of each data point, or variance, which is the square of the deviation.
  • Shape: A description...
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Published in: Apr 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789800265

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Nathan Greeneltch

Nathan Greeneltch, PhD is a ML engineer at Intel Corp and resident data mining and analytics expert in the AI consulting group. Hes worked with Python analytics in both the start-up realm and the large-scale manufacturing sector over the course of the last decade. Nathan regularly mentors new hires and engineers fresh to the field of analytics, with impromptu chalk talks and division-wide knowledge-sharing sessions at Intel. In his past life, he was a physical chemist studying surface enhancement of the vibration signals of small molecules; a topic on which he wrote a doctoral thesis while at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Nathan hails from the southeastern United States, with family in equal parts from Arkansas and Florida
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