Data science for Business (Paperback)

Foster Provost is Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he teaches in the MBA, Business Analytics and Data Science programs. Former Editor-in-Chief for the journal Machine Learning, Professor Provost has co-founded several successful companies focusing on data science for marketing. Tom Fawcett holds a Ph.D. In machine learning and has worked in industry R and D for more than two decades for companies such as GTE Laboratories, NYNEX/Verizon Labs and HP Labs. His published work has become standard reading in data science both on methodology (evaluating data mining results) and on applications (fraud detection and spam filtering).