Foundational Data Science

Colin Gillespie

Author

Colin Gillespie is the author of Efficient R Programming, published by O’Reilly media. He is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Newcastle University, UK and regularly works with Jumping Rivers to provide data science training and consultancy. He is the only person in history to move to Newcastle for better weather.

Prerequisites

We have tried to keep the prerequisites to a minimum; no calculus, no matrices, very little algebra. Throughout the book, we use the programming language R to illustrate techniques. However, we’ve tried to keep the programming style general, so translating into Python, should be straightforward.

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