Preface

“The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI. This is a big deal, and now it’s here.” – Kevin Kelly

“Machine learning is a core, transformative way by which we’re rethinking everything we’re doing.” – Google CEO, Sundar Pichai

We wrote this short book for business analytics students who want to get started with an initial foundation in deep learning methods. The book is very much a work in progress, and needs work on reworking many figures, and also completing all the necessary references and attributions. Please do not cite or distribute.