Acknowledgement

I would like to dedicate this book to my husband, Shetul Thanaki, for his constant support, encouragement, and creative suggestions.

I give deep thanks and gratitude to my parents, my in-laws, my family, and my friends, who have helped me at every stage of my life. I would also like to thank all the mentors that I've had over the years. I really appreciate the efforts by technical reviewers for reviewing this book. I would also like to thank my current organization, SMECorner, for its support. I am a big fan of open source communities and education communities, so I really want to thank communities such as Kaggel, Udacity, and Coursera who have helped me, in a direct or indirect manner, to understand the various concepts of data science. Without learning from these communities, there is not a chance I could be doing what I do today.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing and Aman Singh, who approached me to write this book. I really appreciate the effort put in by the entire Packt editorial team to make this book as good as possible. Special thanks to Aman Singh, Jagruti Babaria, Menka Bohra, Manthan Patel, Nidhi Joshi, Sayli Nikalje, Manisha Sinha, Safis, and Tania Dutta.

I would like to recognize the efforts of technical editing team, strategy and management team, marketing team, sales team, graphics designer team, pre-production team, post production team, layout coordinators team, and indexer team for making my authoring journey so smooth.

I feel really compelled to pass my knowledge on to those willing to learn.

Thank you God for being kind to me!

Cheers and Happy Reading!