1st Edition

Linear Algebra for Data Science with Python

By John M. Shea Copyright 2026
258 Pages 73 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

258 Pages 73 Color Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Linear Algebra for Data Science with Python provides an introduction to vectors and matrices within the context of data science. This book starts from the fundamentals of vectors and how vectors are used to model data, builds up to matrices and their operations, and then considers applications of matrices and vectors to data fitting, transforming time-series data into the frequency domain, and... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Vectors and Vector Operation

3. Matrices and Operations

4. Solving Systems of Linear Equations

5. Exact and Approximate Data Fitting

6. Transforming Data

Biography

John M. Shea, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, where he has taught classes on stochastic methods, data science, and wireless communications for over 25 years. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University in 1998 and later received the Outstanding Young Alumni award from the Clemson College of Engineering and Science. Dr. Shea was co-leader of Team GatorWings, which won the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (DARPA's fifth Grand Challenge) in 2019; he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Technical Achievement from the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) and is a two-time winner of the Ellersick Award from the IEEE Communications Society for the Best Paper in the Unclassified Program of MILCOM.