Book

Principles of Data Science

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

12h56m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

You should be fairly well acquainted with basic algebra and should feel comfortable reading snippets of R/Python as well as pseudo code. You should have the urge to learn and apply the techniques put forth in this book on either your own data sets or those provided to you. If you have the basic math skills but want to apply them in data science or you have good programming skills but lack math, then this book is for you.

Book content

chapters 12h56m total length

How to Sound like a Data Scientist

Types of Data

The Five Steps of Data Science

Mathematics -- The Basics

Impossible or Improbable? – An Introduction to Probability

Advanced Probability

What are the Chances? – An Introduction to Statistics

Advanced Statistics

Say What? -- Communicating Data

How to tell if your toaster is learning -- Machine Learning Essentials

Predictions Don’t Grow on Trees, or do they? -- Beyond Statistical Modelling

Beyond the Essentials

Case Studies

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