Think Like a Data Scientist

Key Features:

• Following the data science process data science, step by step

• Discovering the world of data as a wilderness to be explored, wrangled, and studied Learning to foresee problems at each stage of a data science project

• Dealing with the uncertainty inherent in working with data

• Understanding concepts of data, software, and statistics in ways accessible even for beginners

• Engaging in some of the most relevant best practices in software, statistics, and scientific thinking

Readers should have some familiarity with a programming language and basic statistics, but need not be experts. Important foundational concepts will be reviewed briefly in the book.

ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

Data science is a set of concepts and techniques for extracting meaning and clarity from stored data sets or data streams.