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As a practitioner with a research background I wouldn't recommend this based on the contents over something like Elements of Statistical learning. Generally spe
by usgroup 4y ago
As a practitioner with a research background I wouldn't recommend this based on the contents over something like Elements of Statistical learning. Generally speaking I feel that data science is missing an authoritative methodology book, well separated from books on algorithms or maths/CS foundations.
- college_physics 4y agoI think that is because data science is a recent term that has been coined to mean an increase of interest in the quantitative analysis of "data" across a diverse number of domains. To abstract what is common across all these fields is not a minor task... But achieving such an authoritative methodology book that will not be a cut-and-paste compilation of different strands is in some sense also an acid test whether the term has long term meaning or was simply a hype term during a particular speculative bubble period.
- usgroup 4y agoyeah i think that's accurate. "what they do" rather constrains a book about "how they do it" :-)