About the Author

Samir Madhavan has been working in the field of data science since 2010. He is an industry expert on machine learning and big data. He has also reviewed R Machine Learning Essentials by Packt Publishing. He was part of the ubiquitous Aadhar project of the Unique Identification Authority of India, which is in the process of helping every Indian get a unique number that is similar to a social security number in the United States. He was also the first employee of Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics and is a part of the core team that has helped scale the number of employees in the company to 50. His company is now recognized as one of the most promising Internet of Things—Decision Sciences companies in the world.