Practical Business Analytics Using R and Python

Section 1: Introduction to Analytics.- Chapter 1: Business Analytics Revolution.- Chapter 2: Foundations of Business Analytics.- Chapter 3: Structured Query Language (SQL) Analytics.- Chapter 4: Business Analytics Process.- Chapter 5: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).- Chapter 6: Evaluating Analytics Model Performance.- Section II: Supervised Learning and Predictive Analytics.- Chapter 7: Simple Linear Regressions.- Chapter 8: Multiple Linear Regressions.- Chapter 9: Classification.- Chapter 10: Neural Networks.- Chapter 11: Logistic Regression.- Section III: Time Series Models.- Chapter 12: Time Series - Forecasting.- Section IV: Unsupervised Model and Text Mining.- Chapter 13: Cluster Analysis.- Chapter 14: Relationship Data Mining.- Chapter 15: Mining Text and Text Analytics.- Chapter 16: Big Data and Big Data Analytics.- Section V: Business Analytics Tools.- Chapter 17: R programming for Analytics.- Chapter 18: Python Programming for Analytics.

Dr. Umesh Hodeghatta Rao is an engineer, a scientist, and an educator. He is currently a faculty member at Northeastern University, MA, USA, specializing in data analytics, AI, machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and cyber security.  He has more than 25 years of work experience in technical and senior management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Cisco Systems, McAfee, and Wipro. He was also a faculty member at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA and Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India. He has his master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Oklahoma State University, USA and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. His research interest is applying AI Machine Learning to strengthen an organization's information security based on his expertise on Information Security and Machine Learning. As a Chief Data Scientist, he is helping business leaders to make informed decisions and recommendations linked to the organization's strategy and financial goals, reflecting an awareness of external dynamics based on a data-driven approach.

He has published many journal articles in international journals and conference proceedings.  In addition, he has authored books titled "Business Analytics Using R: A Practical Approach" and "The InfoSec Handbook: An Introduction to Information Security" published by Springer Apress, USA. Furthermore, Dr. Hodeghatta has contributed his services to many professional organizations and regulatory bodies. He was an Executive Committee member of IEEE Computer Society (India); Academic advisory member for the Information and Security Audit Association (ISACA), USA; IT advisor for the government of India; Technical Advisory Member of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) India; Advisory member of Task Force on Business Intelligence & Knowledge Management; He is listed in Who's Who in the World