Learning Predictive Analytics with Python

Foreword

Data science is changing the way we go about our daily lives at an unprecedented pace. The recommendations you see on e-commerce websites, the technologies that prevent credit card fraud, the logic behind airline itinerary and route selections, the products and discounts you see in retail stores, and many more decisions are largely powered by data science. Futuristic sounding applications like self-driving cars, robots to do household chores, smart wearable technologies, and so on are becoming a reality, thanks to innovations in data science.

Predictive analytics is a branch of data science, used to predict unknown future events based on historical data. It uses a number of techniques from data mining, statistical modelling and machine ...