Leandro Nunes de Castro – författare

This book is a comprehensive guide to exploratory data analysis (EDA), providing readers with the tools, techniques, and knowledge needed to conduct effective and thorough data exploration. Throughout the seven main chapters, this book details various aspects of EDA, from data description and preprocessing to visualization, storytelling, and dashboard design. We will explore real‑world datasets, uncovering hidden patterns and gaining insights along the way. This book is filled with illustrations using practical examples, Python codes, and different types of exercises designed to reinforce the concepts and processes discussed. Whether you are a student just starting out in the field of data science, a senior professional looking to improve your skills, or a curious individual interested in the power of data, this book is for you.

This book is a comprehensive guide to exploratory data analysis (EDA), providing readers with the tools, techniques, and knowledge needed to conduct effective and thorough data exploration. Throughout the seven main chapters, this book details various aspects of EDA, from data description and preprocessing to visualization, storytelling, and dashboard design. We will explore real‑world datasets, uncovering hidden patterns and gaining insights along the way. This book is filled with illustrations using practical examples, Python codes, and different types of exercises designed to reinforce the concepts and processes discussed. Whether you are a student just starting out in the field of data science, a senior professional looking to improve your skills, or a curious individual interested in the power of data, this book is for you.

Natural computing brings together nature and computing to develop new computational tools for problem solving; to synthesize natural patterns and behaviors in computers; and to potentially design novel types of computers. Fundamentals of Natural Computing: Basic Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications presents a wide-ranging survey of novel techniques and important applications of nature-based computing.This book presents theoretical and philosophical discussions, pseudocodes for algorithms, and computing paradigms that illustrate how computational techniques can be used to solve complex problems, simulate nature, explain natural phenomena, and possibly allow the development of new computing technologies. The author features a consistent and approachable, textbook-style format that includes lucid figures, tables, real-world examples, and different types of exercises that complement the concepts while encouraging readers to apply the computational tools in each chapter. Building progressively upon core concepts of nature-inspired techniques, the topics include evolutionary computing, neurocomputing, swarm intelligence, immunocomputing, fractal geometry, artificial life, quantum computing, and DNA computing.Fundamentals of Natural Computing is a self-contained introduction and a practical guide to nature-based computational approaches that will find numerous applications in a variety of growing fields including engineering, computer science, biological modeling, and bioinformatics.