Top books for Data Science and Insurance:
These are the top books we have found that relate to Data Science and the use in the Insurance industry.
The “Top books for Data Science and Insurance” address various techniques in the quickly evolving field of data science. Given the increasing ability of data storage, analysis, and processing these tools/skills will only grow in importance especially as the insurance industry further starts to embrace.
These books can have great use for risk managers and insurance professionals that have historically used statistical techniques to make and support decisions in areas of risk management, risk assessment, underwriting and claims.
Books
Analytics for Insurance: The Real Business of Big Data (The Wiley Finance Series)
Big Data and Analytics for Insurers is the industry-specific guide to creating operational effectiveness, managing risk, improving financials, and retaining customers. Written from a non-IT perspective, this book focuses less on the architecture and technical details, instead providing practical guidance on translating analytics into target delivery. The discussion examines implementation, interpretation, and application to show you what Big Data can do for your business, with insights and examples targeted specifically to the insurance industry. From fraud analytics in claims management, to customer analytics, to risk analytics in Solvency 2, comprehensive coverage presented in accessible language makes this guide an invaluable resource for any insurance professional.
Analytics for Insurance: The Real Business of Big Data (The Wiley Finance Series)
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the “data-analytic thinking” necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You’ll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminating text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals
Data Science For Dummies
Jobs in data science abound, but few people have the data science skills needed to fill these increasingly important roles. Data Science For Dummies is the perfect starting point for IT professionals and students who want a quick primer covering all areas of the expansive data science space. With a focus on business cases, the book explores topics in big data, data science, and data engineering, and how these three areas are combined to produce tremendous value.
Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
Data science is little more than using straight-forward steps to process raw data into actionable insight. And in Data Smart, author and data scientist John Foreman will show you how that’s done within the familiar environment of a spreadsheet.
Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which movies you’ll like? What is causing the rising incidence of autism? As best-selling author Charles Wheelan shows us in Naked Statistics, the right data and a few well-chosen statistical tools can help us answer these questions and more.
For those who slept through Stats 101, this book is a lifesaver. Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis.
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science
Big Data MBA brings insight and expertise to leveraging big data in business so you can harness the power of analytics and gain a true business advantage. Based on a practical framework with supporting methodology and hands-on exercises, this book helps identify where and how big data can help you transform your business.
Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
Predictive Analytics unleashes the power of data. With this technology, the computer literally learns from data how to predict the future behavior of individuals. Perfect prediction is not possible, but putting odds on the future drives millions of decisions more effectively, determining whom to call, mail, investigate, incarcerate, set up on a date, or medicate.
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
Data Analytics: Practical Guide to Leveraging the Power of Algorithms, Data Science, Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, and Predictive Analysis to Improve Business, Work, and Life
This coherent guide covers everything you need to know on the subject of data science, with numerous concrete examples, and invites the reader to dive further into this exciting field.
Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining (Texts in Computer Science)
This successful textbook on predictive text mining offers a unified perspective on a rapidly evolving field, integrating topics spanning the varied disciplines of data science, machine learning, databases, and computational linguistics. Serving also as a practical guide, this unique book provides helpful advice illustrated by examples and case studies.
Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining (Texts in Computer Science)
Analytics in a Big Data World: The Essential Guide to Data Science and its Applications (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
Analytics in a Big Data World reveals how to tap into the powerful tool of data analytics to create a strategic advantage and identify new business opportunities. Designed to be an accessible resource, this essential book does not include exhaustive coverage of all analytical techniques, instead focusing on analytics techniques that really provide added value in business environments.
Applied Insurance Analytics: A Framework for Driving More Value from Data Assets, Technologies, and Tools (FT Press Analytics)
Applied Insurance Analytics demonstrates how to use analytics to systematically improve operations ranging from underwriting and risk management to claims. Even more important: it will help you drive more value everywhere by defining a focused enterprise-wide analytics strategy, and overcoming the challenges that stand in your way.
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Big Data is the first major book about this earthshaking subject, with two leading experts explaining what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards.
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World
The bot takeover began with high frequency trading on Wall Street, and from there it spread to all manners of high-level tasks—such as diagnosing illnesses or interpreting legal documents. There is no realm of human endeavor safe from algorithms that employ speed, precision and nuance.
In this fascinating book, Steiner tells the story of how algorithms took over and shows why the “bot revolution” is about to spill into every aspect of our lives. We meet bots that are driving cars, penning haikus, and writing music mistaken for Bach’s.
Automate This: How Algorithms Took Over Our Markets, Our Jobs, and the World
Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
Big Data at Work covers all the bases: what big data means from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; what its opportunities and costs are; where it can have real business impact; and which aspects of this hot topic have been oversold.
Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline
In many of these chapter-long lectures, data scientists from companies such as Google, Microsoft, and eBay share new algorithms, methods, and models by presenting case studies and the code they use. If you’re familiar with linear algebra, probability, and statistics, and have programming experience, this book is an ideal introduction to data science.
Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline
