Analytics, Data Science, & Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support

This is one of the worst textbooks I have ever had to purchase. Unfortunately, a course I am taking requires it. Here is a summary of its problems:* Spelling, grammatical, fluency and literacy errors throughout - sometimes making it difficult to understand what the authors are saying* Rather than explain content, the authors regularly refer to other sources of information. They do this so frequently that after reading about a particular topic, you are left with no new knowledge on the subject matter.* The authors shy away from defining subjects. For example, they offer no clear definition of "artificial intelligence," "machine learning," or "deep learning" in the chapters in which they are covered. Instead, they repeatedly say "there is no consensus on definitions for this term." While that may be true, there must still be some definition that they offer in order to work from.* While offering no definitions on terms such as those in the bullet above, there are definitions of those terms in the textbook's glossary. However, those definitions seem to have come from yet another source, as they do not match up with the definitions discussed in the chapters.This is a disappointing textbook, particularly for one that is in its 11th edition.

This book has a nice coverage of all contemporary business analytics and data science related topics. I especially like the coverage on AI and its new uses on business applications. Book also has numerous application cases that motivated for the specific topic covered in each chapter.