Mike Barlow’s Learning to Love Data Science (O’Reilly Media)

摘要

The title of Mike Barlow's new O'Reilly book, Learning to Love Data Science, implies an inherent drudgery in the material. Bah! Most Linux enthusiasts will find magnetic the material in Barlow's tome, which is subtitled Explorations of Emerging Technologies and Platforms for Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain Optimization. Covering data for social good to data for predictive maintenance, the book's format is an anthology of reports that offer a broad overview of the data space, including the applications that have arisen in enterprise companies, non-profits and everywhere in between. Barlow discusses-for both developers and suits-the culture that creates a data-driven organization and dives deeply into some of the business, social and technological advances brought about by our ability to handle and process massive amounts of data at scale. Readers also will understand how to promote and use data science in an organization, gain insights into the role of the CIO and explore the tension between securing data and encouraging rapid innovation, among other topics.