Data Science and Predictive Analytics

Professor Ivo D. Dinov directs the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) at the University of Michigan and serves as associate director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). He is an expert in mathematical modeling, statistical analysis, high-throughput computational processing, and scientific visualization of large, complex and heterogeneous datasets (Big Data). Dr. Dinov is developing, validating, and disseminating novel technology-enhanced pedagogical approaches for STEM education and active data science learning. His artificial intelligence and machine learning work involves compressive big data analytics, statistical obfuscation of sensitive data, complex time (kime) representation, model-based and model-free techniques for kimesurface analytics. Dr. Dinov is a member of the American Statistical Association, the American Mathematical Society, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honorary member ofthe Sigma Theta Tau International Society, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

“The book under review is composed as a thorough textbook-like collection of theoretical details and examples spanning fourteen chapters of mathematical background and classic and modern data science and machine learning approaches. Each chapter is significantly enhanced with practice problems and case studies which underline both corner cases and particularities of the presented methods.” (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH 1542.68001, 2024)

• Chapter 1 - Introduction.- Chapter 2: Basic Visualization and Exploratory Data Analytics.- Chapter 3: Linear Algebra, Matrix Computing and Regression Modeling.- Chapter 4: Linear and Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction.- Chapter 5: Supervised Classification.- Chapter 6: Black Box Machine Learning Methods.- Chapter 7: Qualitative Learning Methods - Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Apriori Association Rules Learning.- Chapter 8: Unsupervised Clustering.- Chapter 9: Model Performance Assessment, Validation, and Improvement.- Chapter 10: Specialized Machine Learning Topics.- Chapter 11: Variable Importance and Feature Selection.- Chapter 12: Big Longitudinal Data Analysis.- Chapter 13: Function Optimization.- Chapter 14: Deep Learning, Neural Networks.