Overview
- First book to combine DEA and Data Science
- Editors and Contributors at the forefront of field worldwide
- Illustrates how Data Science techniques can unleash value and drive productivity
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 290)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
This book includes a spectrum of concepts, such as performance, productivity, operations research, econometrics, and data science, for the practically and theoretically important areas of ‘productivity analysis/data envelopment analysis’ and ‘data science/big data’. Data science is defined as the collection of scientific methods, processes, and systems dedicated to extracting knowledge or insights from data and it develops on concepts from various domains, containing mathematics and statistical methods, operations research, machine learning, computer programming, pattern recognition, and data visualisation, among others.
Examples of data science techniques include linear and logistic regressions, decision trees, Naïve Bayesian classifier, principal component analysis, neural networks, predictive modelling, deep learning, text analysis, survival analysis, and so on, all of which allow using the data to make more intelligent decisions. On the other hand, it is without a doubtthat nowadays the amount of data is exponentially increasing, and analysing large data sets has become a key basis of competition and innovation, underpinning new waves of productivity growth. This book aims to bring a fresh look onto the various ways that data science techniques could unleash value and drive productivity from these mountains of data.
Researchers working in productivity analysis/data envelopment analysis will benefit from learning about the tools available in data science/big data that can be used in their current research analyses and endeavours. The data scientists, on the other hand, will also get benefit from learning about the plethora of applications available in productivity analysis/data envelopment analysis.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Juan Aparicio is an Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics, Mathematics an Information Technology of the University Miguel Hernandez, Elche (Alicante), Spain. He is the director of the Center of Operations Research and is also Co-Chair (with Knox Lovell) of the Santander Chair on Efficiency and Productivity. He has published over 100 research contributions, mainly on Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency and Productivity Analysis.
Joe Zhu is Professor of Operations Analytics in the Foisie Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in methods of performance evaluation and benchmarking using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), and his research interests are in the areas of operations and business analytics, productivity modeling, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. He has published and co-edited several books focusing on performance evaluation and benchmarking using DEA and developed the DEA Frontier software.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Data Science and Productivity Analytics
Editors: Vincent Charles, Juan Aparicio, Joe Zhu
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43384-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43383-3Published: 23 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43386-4Published: 23 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43384-0Published: 23 May 2020
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 439
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 49 illustrations in colour
Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Statistical Theory and Methods