Download or read book Machine Learning Quick Reference written by Rahul Kumar and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your hands-on reference guide to developing, training, and optimizing your machine learning models Key FeaturesYour guide to learning efficient machine learning processes from scratchExplore expert techniques and hacks for a variety of machine learning conceptsWrite effective code in R, Python, Scala, and Spark to solve all your machine learning problemsBook Description Machine learning makes it possible to learn about the unknowns and gain hidden insights into your datasets by mastering many tools and techniques. This book guides you to do just that in a very compact manner. After giving a quick overview of what machine learning is all about, Machine Learning Quick Reference jumps right into its core algorithms and demonstrates how they can be applied to real-world scenarios. From model evaluation to optimizing their performance, this book will introduce you to the best practices in machine learning. Furthermore, you will also look at the more advanced aspects such as training neural networks and work with different kinds of data, such as text, time-series, and sequential data. Advanced methods and techniques such as causal inference, deep Gaussian processes, and more are also covered. By the end of this book, you will be able to train fast, accurate machine learning models at your fingertips, which you can easily use as a point of reference. What you will learnGet a quick rundown of model selection, statistical modeling, and cross-validationChoose the best machine learning algorithm to solve your problemExplore kernel learning, neural networks, and time-series analysisTrain deep learning models and optimize them for maximum performanceBriefly cover Bayesian techniques and sentiment analysis in your NLP solutionImplement probabilistic graphical models and causal inferencesMeasure and optimize the performance of your machine learning modelsWho this book is for If you’re a machine learning practitioner, data scientist, machine learning developer, or engineer, this book will serve as a reference point in building machine learning solutions. You will also find this book useful if you’re an intermediate machine learning developer or data scientist looking for a quick, handy reference to all the concepts of machine learning. You’ll need some exposure to machine learning to get the best out of this book.

Download or read book Data Science Quick Reference Manual Modeling and Machine Learning written by Mario A. B. Capurso and published by Mario Capurso. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the 2021 curriculum of the Association for Computing Machinery for specialists in Data Sciences, with the aim of producing a manual that collects notions in a simplified form, facilitating a personal training path starting from specialized skills in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics. It has a bibliography with links to quality material but freely usable for your own training and contextual practical exercises. Part of a series of books, it first summarizes the standard CRISP DM working methodology used in this work and in Data Science projects. Since this text uses Orange for the application aspects, it describes its installation and widgets. Then it considers the concept of model, its life cycle and the relationship with measures and metrics. The data modeling phase is considered from the point of view of machine learning by deepening the types of machine learning, the types of models, the types of problems and the types of algorithms. After considering the ideal characteristics of models and algorithms, a vocabulary of the types of models and algorithms is compiled and their use in Orange is considered through two supervised and unsupervised projects respectively. The text is accompanied by supporting material and you can download the samples in Orange and the test data.

Download or read book Data Science Quick Reference Manual Advanced Machine Learning and Deployment written by Mario A. B. Capurso and published by Mario Capurso. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the 2021 curriculum of the Association for Computing Machinery for specialists in Data Sciences, with the aim of producing a manual that collects notions in a simplified form, facilitating a personal training path starting from specialized skills in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics. It has a bibliography with links to quality material but freely usable for your own training and contextual practical exercises. Part in a series of texts, it first summarizes the standard CRISP DM working methodology used in this work and in Data Science projects. As this text uses Orange for the application aspects, it describes its installation and widgets. The data modeling phase is considered from the perspective of machine learning by summarizing machine learning types, model types, problem types, and algorithm types. Advanced aspects associated with modeling are described such as loss and optimization functions such as gradient descent, techniques to analyze model performance such as Bootstrapping and Cross Validation. Deployment scenarios and the most common platforms are analyzed, with application examples. Mechanisms are proposed to automate machine learning and to support the interpretability of models and results such as Partial Dependence Plot, Permuted Feature Importance and others. The exercises are described with Orange and Python using the Keras/Tensorflow library. The text is accompanied by supporting material and it is possible to download the examples and the test data.

Download or read book Data Science Quick Reference Manual Deep Learning written by Mario A. B. Capurso and published by Mario Capurso. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the 2021 curriculum of the Association for Computing Machinery for specialists in Data Sciences, with the aim of producing a manual that collects notions in a simplified form, facilitating a personal training path starting from specialized skills in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics. It has a bibliography with links to quality material but freely usable for your own training and contextual practical exercises. Part in a series of texts, it first summarizes the standard CRISP DM working methodology used in this work and in Data Science projects. As this text uses Orange for the application aspects, it describes its installation and widgets. The data modeling phase is considered from the perspective of machine learning by summarizing machine learning types, model types, problem types, and algorithm types. Deep Learning techniques are described considering the architectures of the Perceptron, Neocognitron, the neuron with Backpropagation and the activation functions, the Feed Forward Networks, the Autoencoders, the recurrent networks and the LSTM and GRU, the Transformer Neural Networks, the Convolutional Neural Networks and Generative Adversarial Networks and analyzed the building blocks. Regularization techniques (Dropout, Early stopping and others), visual design and simulation techniques and tools, the most used algorithms and the best known architectures (LeNet, VGGnet, ResNet, Inception and others) are considered, closing with a set of practical tips and tricks. The exercises are described with Orange and Python using the Keras/Tensorflow library. The text is accompanied by supporting material and it is possible to download the examples and the test data.

Download or read book Machine Learning Pocket Reference written by Matt Harrison and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With detailed notes, tables, and examples, this handy reference will help you navigate the basics of structured machine learning. Author Matt Harrison delivers a valuable guide that you can use for additional support during training and as a convenient resource when you dive into your next machine learning project. Ideal for programmers, data scientists, and AI engineers, this book includes an overview of the machine learning process and walks you through classification with structured data. You’ll also learn methods for clustering, predicting a continuous value (regression), and reducing dimensionality, among other topics. This pocket reference includes sections that cover: Classification, using the Titanic dataset Cleaning data and dealing with missing data Exploratory data analysis Common preprocessing steps using sample data Selecting features useful to the model Model selection Metrics and classification evaluation Regression examples using k-nearest neighbor, decision trees, boosting, and more Metrics for regression evaluation Clustering Dimensionality reduction Scikit-learn pipelines

Download or read book Data Science Quick Reference Manual Exploratory Data Analysis Metrics Models written by Mario A. B. Capurso and published by Mario Capurso. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the 2021 curriculum of the Association for Computing Machinery for specialists in Data Sciences, with the aim of producing a manual that collects notions in a simplified form, facilitating a personal training path starting from specialized skills in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics. It has a bibliography with links to quality material but freely usable for your own training and contextual practical exercises. Third of a series of books, it first summarizes the standard CRISP DM working methodology used in this work and in Data Science projects. Since this text uses Orange for the application aspects, it describes its installation and widgets. Then it considers the concept of model, its life cycle and the relationship with measures and metrics. The measures of localization, dispersion, asymmetry, correlation, similarity, distance are then described. The test and score metrics used in machine learning, those relating to texts and documents, the association metrics between items in a shopping cart, the relationship between objects, similarity between sets and between graphs, similarity between time series are considered. As a preliminary activity to the modeling phase, the Exploration Data Analysis is deepened in terms of questions, process, techniques and types of problems. For each type of problem, the recommended graphs, the methods of interpreting the results and their implementation in Orange are considered. The text is accompanied by supporting material and you can download the samples in Orange and the test data.

Download or read book Deep Learning Quick Reference written by Michael Bernico and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive deeper into neural networks and get your models trained, optimized with this quick reference guide Key Features A quick reference to all important deep learning concepts and their implementations Essential tips, tricks, and hacks to train a variety of deep learning models such as CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs, and more Supplemented with essential mathematics and theory, every chapter provides best practices and safe choices for training and fine-tuning your models in Keras and Tensorflow. Book Description Deep learning has become an essential necessity to enter the world of artificial intelligence. With this book deep learning techniques will become more accessible, practical, and relevant to practicing data scientists. It moves deep learning from academia to the real world through practical examples. You will learn how Tensor Board is used to monitor the training of deep neural networks and solve binary classification problems using deep learning. Readers will then learn to optimize hyperparameters in their deep learning models. The book then takes the readers through the practical implementation of training CNN's, RNN's, and LSTM's with word embeddings and seq2seq models from scratch. Later the book explores advanced topics such as Deep Q Network to solve an autonomous agent problem and how to use two adversarial networks to generate artificial images that appear real. For implementation purposes, we look at popular Python-based deep learning frameworks such as Keras and Tensorflow, Each chapter provides best practices and safe choices to help readers make the right decision while training deep neural networks. By the end of this book, you will be able to solve real-world problems quickly with deep neural networks. What you will learn Solve regression and classification challenges with TensorFlow and Keras Learn to use Tensor Board for monitoring neural networks and its training Optimize hyperparameters and safe choices/best practices Build CNN's, RNN's, and LSTM's and using word embedding from scratch Build and train seq2seq models for machine translation and chat applications. Understanding Deep Q networks and how to use one to solve an autonomous agent problem. Explore Deep Q Network and address autonomous agent challenges. Who this book is for If you are a Data Scientist or a Machine Learning expert, then this book is a very useful read in training your advanced machine learning and deep learning models. You can also refer this book if you are stuck in-between the neural network modeling and need immediate assistance in getting accomplishing the task smoothly. Some prior knowledge of Python and tight hold on the basics of machine learning is required.

Download or read book Data Science Quick Reference Manual Analysis and Visualization written by Mario A. B. Capurso and published by Mario A.B. Capurso. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the 2021 curriculum of the Association for Computing Machinery for specialists in Data Sciences, with the aim of producing a manual that collects notions in a simplified form, facilitating a personal training path starting from specialized skills in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics. It has a bibliography with links to quality material but freely usable for your own training and contextual practical exercises. Second of a series of books, it covers methodological aspects, analysis and visualization. It describes the CRISP DM methodology, the working phases, the success criteria, the languages and the environments that can be used, the application libraries. Since this book uses Orange for the application aspects, its installation and widgets are described. In visualization, historical notes are made, and next the book describes the characteristics of an effective visualization, the types of messages that can be conveyed, the Grammar of Graphics, the use of a graph and a dashboard, the software and libraries that can be used, the role and use of color. 55 types of graphs are then analyzed, reporting meaning, use, examples and visual dimensions also with a vocabulary of graphs and summary tables. Examples are given in Orange and the possible use of Python with Orange is explained. Visualization-based inference is discussed, exploratory and confirmatory analysis is defined and techniques are reported. The book is accompanied by supporting material and it is possible to download the project samples in Orange and sample data.

Download or read book Data Science and Machine Learning written by Dirk P. Kroese and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on mathematical understanding Presentation is self-contained, accessible, and comprehensive Full color throughout Extensive list of exercises and worked-out examples Many concrete algorithms with actual code

Download or read book Python Data Science Handbook written by Jake VanderPlas and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many researchers, Python is a first-class tool mainly because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data. Several resources exist for individual pieces of this data science stack, but only with the Python Data Science Handbook do you get them all—IPython, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, and other related tools. Working scientists and data crunchers familiar with reading and writing Python code will find this comprehensive desk reference ideal for tackling day-to-day issues: manipulating, transforming, and cleaning data; visualizing different types of data; and using data to build statistical or machine learning models. Quite simply, this is the must-have reference for scientific computing in Python. With this handbook, you’ll learn how to use: IPython and Jupyter: provide computational environments for data scientists using Python NumPy: includes the ndarray for efficient storage and manipulation of dense data arrays in Python Pandas: features the DataFrame for efficient storage and manipulation of labeled/columnar data in Python Matplotlib: includes capabilities for a flexible range of data visualizations in Python Scikit-Learn: for efficient and clean Python implementations of the most important and established machine learning algorithms

Download or read book Data Science Quick Reference Manual Methodological Aspects Data Acquisition Management and Cleaning written by Mario A. B. Capurso and published by Mario Capurso. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the 2021 curriculum of the Association for Computing Machinery for specialists in Data Sciences, with the aim of producing a manual that collects notions in a simplified form, facilitating a personal training path starting from specialized skills in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics. It has a bibliography with links to quality material but freely usable for your own training and contextual practical exercises. First of a series of books, it covers methodological aspects, data acquisition, management and cleaning. It describes the CRISP DM methodology, the working phases, the success criteria, the languages and the environments that can be used, the application libraries. Since this book uses Orange for the application aspects, its installation and widgets are described. Dealing with data acquisition, the book describes data sources, the acceleration techniques, the discretization methods, the security standards, the types and representations of the data, the techniques for managing corpus of texts such as bag-of-words, word-count , TF-IDF, n-grams, lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, stop word filtering, stemming, techniques for representing and processing images, sampling, filtering, web scraping techniques. Examples are given in Orange. Data quality dimensions are analysed, and then the book considers algorithms for entity identification, truth discovery, rule-based cleaning, missing and repeated value handling, categorical value encoding, outlier cleaning, and errors, inconsistency management, scaling, integration of data from various sources and classification of open sources, application scenarios and the use of databases, datawarehouses, data lakes and mediators, data schema mapping and the role of RDF, OWL and SPARQL, transformations. Examples are given in Orange. The book is accompanied by supporting material and it is possible to download the project samples in Orange and sample data.

Download or read book The Data Science Design Manual written by Steven S. Skiena and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and clearly written textbook/reference provides a must-have introduction to the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of data science. It focuses on the principles fundamental to becoming a good data scientist and the key skills needed to build systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data. The Data Science Design Manual is a source of practical insights that highlights what really matters in analyzing data, and provides an intuitive understanding of how these core concepts can be used. The book does not emphasize any particular programming language or suite of data-analysis tools, focusing instead on high-level discussion of important design principles. This easy-to-read text ideally serves the needs of undergraduate and early graduate students embarking on an “Introduction to Data Science” course. It reveals how this discipline sits at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and machine learning, with a distinct heft and character of its own. Practitioners in these and related fields will find this book perfect for self-study as well. Additional learning tools: Contains “War Stories,” offering perspectives on how data science applies in the real world Includes “Homework Problems,” providing a wide range of exercises and projects for self-study Provides a complete set of lecture slides and online video lectures at www.data-manual.com Provides “Take-Home Lessons,” emphasizing the big-picture concepts to learn from each chapter Recommends exciting “Kaggle Challenges” from the online platform Kaggle Highlights “False Starts,” revealing the subtle reasons why certain approaches fail Offers examples taken from the data science television show “The Quant Shop” (www.quant-shop.com)

Download or read book Grokking Deep Learning written by Andrew W. Trask and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Grokking Deep Learning teaches you to build deep learning neural networks from scratch! In his engaging style, seasoned deep learning expert Andrew Trask shows you the science under the hood, so you grok for yourself every detail of training neural networks. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, teaches computers to learn by using neural networks, technology inspired by the human brain. Online text translation, self-driving cars, personalized product recommendations, and virtual voice assistants are just a few of the exciting modern advancements possible thanks to deep learning. About the Book Grokking Deep Learning teaches you to build deep learning neural networks from scratch! In his engaging style, seasoned deep learning expert Andrew Trask shows you the science under the hood, so you grok for yourself every detail of training neural networks. Using only Python and its math-supporting library, NumPy, you'll train your own neural networks to see and understand images, translate text into different languages, and even write like Shakespeare! When you're done, you'll be fully prepared to move on to mastering deep learning frameworks. What's inside The science behind deep learning Building and training your own neural networks Privacy concepts, including federated learning Tips for continuing your pursuit of deep learning About the Reader For readers with high school-level math and intermediate programming skills. About the Author Andrew Trask is a PhD student at Oxford University and a research scientist at DeepMind. Previously, Andrew was a researcher and analytics product manager at Digital Reasoning, where he trained the world's largest artificial neural network and helped guide the analytics roadmap for the Synthesys cognitive computing platform. Table of Contents Introducing deep learning: why you should learn it Fundamental concepts: how do machines learn? Introduction to neural prediction: forward propagation Introduction to neural learning: gradient descent Learning multiple weights at a time: generalizing gradient descent Building your first deep neural network: introduction to backpropagation How to picture neural networks: in your head and on paper Learning signal and ignoring noise:introduction to regularization and batching Modeling probabilities and nonlinearities: activation functions Neural learning about edges and corners: intro to convolutional neural networks Neural networks that understand language: king - man + woman == ? Neural networks that write like Shakespeare: recurrent layers for variable-length data Introducing automatic optimization: let's build a deep learning framework Learning to write like Shakespeare: long short-term memory Deep learning on unseen data: introducing federated learning Where to go from here: a brief guide

Download or read book Data Science for Business Professionals written by Probyto Data Science and Consulting Pvt. Ltd. and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primer into the multidisciplinary world of Data Science KEY FEATURESÊÊ - Explore and use the key concepts of Statistics required to solve data science problems - Use Docker, Jenkins, and Git for Continuous Development and Continuous Integration of your web app - Learn how to build Data Science solutions with GCP and AWS DESCRIPTIONÊ The book will initially explain the What-Why of Data Science and the process of solving a Data Science problem. The fundamental concepts of Data Science, such as Statistics, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Data pipeline, and Cloud Computing, will also be discussed. All the topics will be explained with an example problem and will show how the industry approaches to solve such a problem. The book will pose questions to the learners to solve the problems and build the problem-solving aptitude and effectively learn. The book uses Mathematics wherever necessary and will show you how it is implemented using Python with the help of an example dataset.Ê WHAT WILL YOU LEARNÊÊ - Understand the multi-disciplinary nature of Data Science - Get familiar with the key concepts in Mathematics and Statistics - Explore a few key ML algorithms and their use cases - Learn how to implement the basics of Data Pipelines - Get an overview of Cloud Computing & DevOps - Learn how to create visualizations using Tableau WHO THIS BOOK IS FORÊ This book is ideal for Data Science enthusiasts who want to explore various aspects of Data Science. Useful for Academicians, Business owners, and Researchers for a quick reference on industrial practices in Data Science.Ê TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Data Science in Practice 2. Mathematics Essentials 3. Statistics Essentials 4. Exploratory Data Analysis 5. Data preprocessing 6. Feature Engineering 7. Machine learning algorithms 8. Productionizing ML models 9. Data Flows in Enterprises 10. Introduction to Databases 11. Introduction to Big Data 12. DevOps for Data Science 13. Introduction to Cloud Computing 14. Deploy Model to Cloud 15. Introduction to Business IntelligenceÊ 16. Data Visualization Tools 17. Industry Use Case 1 Ð FormAssist 18. Industry Use Case 2 Ð PeopleReporter 19. Data Science Learning Resources 20. Do It Your Self Challenges 21. MCQs for Assessments

Download or read book Machine Learning Algorithms written by Giuseppe Bonaccorso and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build strong foundation for entering the world of Machine Learning and data science with the help of this comprehensive guide About This Book Get started in the field of Machine Learning with the help of this solid, concept-rich, yet highly practical guide. Your one-stop solution for everything that matters in mastering the whats and whys of Machine Learning algorithms and their implementation. Get a solid foundation for your entry into Machine Learning by strengthening your roots (algorithms) with this comprehensive guide. Who This Book Is For This book is for IT professionals who want to enter the field of data science and are very new to Machine Learning. Familiarity with languages such as R and Python will be invaluable here. What You Will Learn Acquaint yourself with important elements of Machine Learning Understand the feature selection and feature engineering process Assess performance and error trade-offs for Linear Regression Build a data model and understand how it works by using different types of algorithm Learn to tune the parameters of Support Vector machines Implement clusters to a dataset Explore the concept of Natural Processing Language and Recommendation Systems Create a ML architecture from scratch. In Detail As the amount of data continues to grow at an almost incomprehensible rate, being able to understand and process data is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine learning applications are everywhere, from self-driving cars, spam detection, document search, and trading strategies, to speech recognition. This makes machine learning well-suited to the present-day era of Big Data and Data Science. The main challenge is how to transform data into actionable knowledge. In this book you will learn all the important Machine Learning algorithms that are commonly used in the field of data science. These algorithms can be used for supervised as well as unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and semi-supervised learning. A few famous algorithms that are covered in this book are Linear regression, Logistic Regression, SVM, Naive Bayes, K-Means, Random Forest, TensorFlow, and Feature engineering. In this book you will also learn how these algorithms work and their practical implementation to resolve your problems. This book will also introduce you to the Natural Processing Language and Recommendation systems, which help you run multiple algorithms simultaneously. On completion of the book you will have mastered selecting Machine Learning algorithms for clustering, classification, or regression based on for your problem. Style and approach An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide that will help you get to grips with real -world applications of Algorithms for Machine Learning.

Download or read book End to End Data Science with SAS written by James Gearheart and published by SAS Institute. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn data science concepts with real-world examples in SAS! End-to-End Data Science with SAS: A Hands-On Programming Guide provides clear and practical explanations of the data science environment, machine learning techniques, and the SAS programming knowledge necessary to develop machine learning models in any industry. The book covers concepts including understanding the business need, creating a modeling data set, linear regression, parametric classification models, and non-parametric classification models. Real-world business examples and example code are used to demonstrate each process step-by-step. Although a significant amount of background information and supporting mathematics are presented, the book is not structured as a textbook, but rather it is a user’s guide for the application of data science and machine learning in a business environment. Readers will learn how to think like a data scientist, wrangle messy data, choose a model, and evaluate the model’s effectiveness. New data scientists or professionals who want more experience with SAS will find this book to be an invaluable reference. Take your data science career to the next level by mastering SAS programming for machine learning models.

Download or read book Introduction to Data Science written by Rafael A. Irizarry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Data Science: Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R introduces concepts and skills that can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges. It covers concepts from probability, statistical inference, linear regression, and machine learning. It also helps you develop skills such as R programming, data wrangling, data visualization, predictive algorithm building, file organization with UNIX/Linux shell, version control with Git and GitHub, and reproducible document preparation. This book is a textbook for a first course in data science. No previous knowledge of R is necessary, although some experience with programming may be helpful. The book is divided into six parts: R, data visualization, statistics with R, data wrangling, machine learning, and productivity tools. Each part has several chapters meant to be presented as one lecture. The author uses motivating case studies that realistically mimic a data scientist’s experience. He starts by asking specific questions and answers these through data analysis so concepts are learned as a means to answering the questions. Examples of the case studies included are: US murder rates by state, self-reported student heights, trends in world health and economics, the impact of vaccines on infectious disease rates, the financial crisis of 2007-2008, election forecasting, building a baseball team, image processing of hand-written digits, and movie recommendation systems. The statistical concepts used to answer the case study questions are only briefly introduced, so complementing with a probability and statistics textbook is highly recommended for in-depth understanding of these concepts. If you read and understand the chapters and complete the exercises, you will be prepared to learn the more advanced concepts and skills needed to become an expert.