The translation of the book “Data Mining for Business Analysis: Concepts, Techniques and Applications in Python” by Dr. Mohammadreza Faghihi Habibabadi, associate professor of the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences of Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) and Samaneh Tat, a PhD student of this faculty, has been published recently by SBU Press in 794 pages. The book was originally written by Galit Shmueli, Peter C. Bruce, Peter Gedeck, and Nitin R. Patel.
In the last years of the 20th century, with the increase in the speed of computer calculations, the volume of data increased, and as a result, data analysis, especially the extraction of the hidden patterns became very important. At that time, the need to discover and extract these patterns led to the establishment of the field of data mining, which was used in various large organizations and companies in the world. The exponential growth of the volume of data and the increasing speed of their processing, especially in the second decade of the 21st century, have formed the specialized field of data science, in which the sciences of statistics, mathematics, science and computer engineering play a role.
Today, although the field of data science is in the center of attention of managers and academic centers in the world, the core of a data science expert's work is extracting knowledge from data, which is often performed with data mining techniques.
Since data mining benefits from the two specializations of statistics and computer science, and without paying attention to both subjects, it is not possible to make the most of it, the existence of a source that will guide the reader to the correct implementation of data mining projects, taking into account both subjects, is very important. Many books have been published in the world in the field of data mining, most of which do not have a comprehensive and appropriate approach. This is despite the fact that there are many shortcomings in the Persian sources, because none of the few books available in the Persian language can be used in university education. For this reason, the present book, which has many suitable features, was chosen for translation.
It is necessary to remind that data mining is used in many fields, one of the most important of which is automatic business analysis (Business Analytics), which is used in every organization, institution and company.
This book describes data mining for automated business analysis using the Python language, but the reader will have the ability to apply data mining in all fields by understanding its concepts and techniques.
To buy this book, students and interested parties can go to the sales office of Shahid Beheshti University Scientific Works Publishing Center, located in the Information Technology (IT) building, ground floor, or order online through the center's website. It is also possible to buy the electronic file of the book from “Fidibo”, “Booket” and “Taaghche” websites.