
Python Data Analysis, Second Edition
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Predictive analytics and machine learning have recently been accepted into mainstream data science and data analytics by many industries. They are now compared to other fields, and, without a doubt, we can expect a lot of rapid growth. It is even predicted that machine learning will accelerate so fast that within mere decades human labor will be replaced by intelligent machines (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity). The current state of art for artificial general intelligence (AGI) is far from that utopia, but machine learning has come a long way, and is being used in self-driving cars, chatbots, and AI-based assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Ok Google. A lot of computing power and data is still needed to make even simple decisions, such as determining whether pictures on the Internet contain dogs or cats. Predictive analytics uses a variety of techniques, including machine...