Foreword / by Gareth James -- Foreword / by Ravi Bapna -- Preface to the Python edition -- Overview of the data mining … through the use of Python software for developing predictive models and techniques in order to describe and find patterns in … mining methods, with a focus on analytics rather than programming. The book includes discussions of Python subroutines …

concepts in an easily interpretable way. All the results, tested with Python programs, are demonstrated rigorously, often using … a model, principal component analysis is explained. The presented Python code and web scraping techniques also make it … and matrix manipulation. Those who want to run the code will have to install Python on their pc, or alternatively can use …

, Centrality and More -- 3.2.2 Connecting the Dots: Network Properties -- 3.3 Social Networks with Python: NetworkX -- 3 …