"Survival analysis uses statistics to calculate time to failure. Survival Analysis with Python takes a fresh look at this complex subject by explaining how to use the Python programming language to perform this type of analysis. As the subject itself is very mathematical and full of expressions...

Contents: 1 The promise, application and pitfalls of big data / John Storm Pedersen and Adrian Wilkinson -- 2: Man versus cyborg / Vladimir Estivill-Castro -- 3: Big data and application / Patrick Mikalef -- 4: Big data and human resource management / Tobias M. Scholz -- 5: Big data in the...

"'Big data' is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet. Key economic indicators, such as the consumer price index, can be tracked over long...