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Data Science, sometimes known as methods of processing and analyzing massive data sets (Big Data), is a rapidly evolving field. This book teaches important topics of the emerging data science by providing simple and practical examples in R language. Initial chapters are about data collection and management at large scale, and then data analytics and applying statistical and machine learning models on the collected data are discussed in rest of the book. Ten important topics in data science are explained in ten chapters of this book with practical examples in Oracle SQL, R, Hadoop, and MapReduce. The fundamental of data management such as relational database systems, data mining and distributed computing with practical examples of SQL and implementing Hadoop and MapReduce are detailed in chapters 1 to 3. Regression and statistical analysis, neural networks, support vector machines and machine learning are explained in simple language together with R programming examples, in chapter 4 to 7. Natural language processing, recommendation systems and analyzing social networks graphs are explained in chapters 8 to 10 of this book. Read more