• Title: What is Data Science?
• Author(s) JMike Loukides
• Publisher: y O’Reilly Media, Inc.,; eBook (Online Edition))
• Hardcover/Paperback: N/A
• eBook: HTML and PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10/ASIN: 1334177049
• ISBN-13: 978-1449327552
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Book Description

The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products. This book examines the many sides of data science — the technologies, the companies and the unique skill sets.

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• Data Science
• Data Analysis and Data Mining, Big Data
• The R Programming Language
• Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, and SAS Programming

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