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	Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking by Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett 4.13 avg rating — 2,681 ratings — published 2013 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Data Science For Business: What You Need to Know About Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking by Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce by Ronny Kohavi (Editor), Foster Provost (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce by Ron Kohavi (Editor), Foster Provost (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DATA SCIENCE FOR BUSINESS by Tom Fawcett, Foster Provost, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking by Tom Fawcett; Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett, Foster Provost 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking by Tom Fawcett; Foster Provost, Tom Fawcett, Foster Provost 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein”
― Foster Provost, Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

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“data mining is an exploratory undertaking closer to research and development than it is to engineering.”
― Foster Provost, Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

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“Unfortunately, creating an objective function that matches the true goal of the data mining is usually impossible, so data scientists often choose based on faith[22] and experience.”
― Foster Provost, Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

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