Data Science and Big Data Analytics is about harnessing the power of data for new insights. The book covers the breadth of activities and methods and tools that Data Scientists use.

To help realize Big Data's full potential, the book addresses numerous challenges, offering the conceptual and technological solutions for tackling them.

Introduces the programming language's syntax, control flow, and basic data structures and covers its interaction with applications and mangement of large collections of code.

Also new for this edition, a Companion Website provides additional resources to help you apply the critical techniques you learn.

And not everyone is on their side! After a career of scientific publication, this is Vic's first fictional work.