Ashish Kumar is a seasoned data science professional, a publisher author and a thought leader in the field of data science and machine learning. An IIT Madras graduate and a Young India Fellow, he has around 7 years of experience in implementing and deploying data science and machine learning solutions for challenging industry problems in both hands-on and leadership roles. Natural Language Procession, IoT Analytics, R Shiny product development, Ensemble ML methods etc. are his core areas of expertise. He is fluent in Python and R and teaches a popular ML course at Simplilearn. When not crunching data, Ashish sneaks pff to the next hip beach around and enjoys the company of his Kindle. He also trains and mentors
data science aspirants and fledling start-ups.
My long-term friends Pranav, Ajit, Vidya, Adarsh, Ashweetha, and Simer have been my support system.
I am indebted to Ram Sukumar and Zeena Johar for their guidance. I want to thank Ramya S, S Abdullah, Sandhya S, and Kirthi T for their help on this book.