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About the authors
Luca Massaron is a data scientist and marketing research director specialized in multivariate statistical analysis, machine learning, and customer insight, with 10+ years experience of solving real-world problems and generating value for stakeholders using reasoning, statistics, data mining, and algorithms. Passionate about everything on data analysis and demonstrating the potentiality of data-driven knowledge discovery to both experts and non-experts, he believes that a lot can be achieved by understanding in simple terms and practicing the essentials of any discipline.
I would like to thank Yukiko and Amelia for their continued support, help, and loving patience.
Alberto Boschetti is a data scientist with strong expertise in signal processing and statistics. He holds a PhD in telecommunication engineering and lives and works in London. In his work, he faces daily challenges spanning natural language processing, machine learning, and distributed processing. He is very passionate about his job and always tries to stay up to date on the latest development in data science technologies, attending meetups, conferences, and other events.
AlexeyGrigorev is a skilled data scientist, machine learning engineer, and software developer with more than 8 years of professional experience. He started his career as a Java developer working at a number of large and small companies, but after a while he switched to data science. Right now, Alexey works as a data scientist at Simplaex, where, in his day-to-day job, he actively uses Java and Python for data cleaning, data analysis, and modeling. His areas of expertise are machine learning and text mining.
I would like to thank my wife, Larisa, and my son, Arkadij, for their patience and support while I was working on the book.
Abhishek Thakur is a data scientist. His focus is mainly on applied machine learning and deep learning, rather than theoretical aspects. He completed his master's in computer science at the University of Bonn in early 2014. Since then, he has worked in various industries, with a research focus on automatic machine learning. He likes taking part in machine learning competitions and has attained a third place in the worldwide rankings on the popular website Kaggle.
Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani is currently a deep learning lead at SAP, Singapore. Previously, he worked and consulted at various startups, developing computer vision products. He has a master's from IIT Madras, his thesis having been based on the applications of computer vision in manufacturing. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, and spoken at conferences, and applied for a few patents in machine learning. In his spare time, he coaches programming and machine learning to school students and engineers.
I thank my spouse Ezhil, family and friends for their immense support. I thank all the teachers, colleagues, managers and mentors from whom I have learned a lot.
About the reviewer
Marvin Bertin is an online course author and technical book editor focused on deep learning, computer vision, and NLP with TensorFlow. He holds a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and a master's in data science. He has worked as an ML engineer and data scientist in the Bay Area, focusing on recommender systems, NLP, and biotech applications. He currently works at a start-up that develops deep learning (AI) algorithms for early cancer detection.
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