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I haven’t looked at the material yet, but I did try to read Deborah Nolan’s book Data Science in R, and it was a confounding experience. I remember thinking “th
by iron0013 8y ago
I haven’t looked at the material yet, but I did try to read Deborah Nolan’s book Data Science in R, and it was a confounding experience. I remember thinking “the material in this book is so far from anything that I’ve ever heard described as ‘Data Science’ that it renders the phrase useless”
- thousandautumns 8y agoI've never looked at Data Science in R, but Hadley Wickam's R for Data Science is great in my opinion. Really applicable, down to earth, and focuses much more on the meat of data science (data manipulation and munging, visualization, relational data, and efficient programing) more than the typical "fit a neural network to this idealized toy data set!" Its also available for free online at https://r4ds.had.co.nz/ https://r4ds.had.co.nz/