Beginning Data Science in R: Data Analysis, Visualization, and Modelling for the Data Scientist - Softcover

Mailund, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484226704 ISBN 13: 9781484226704

Publisher: Apress, 2017

Synopsis

Discover best practices for data analysis and software development in R and start on the path to becoming a fully-fledged data scientist. This book teaches you techniques for both data manipulation and visualization and shows you the best way for developing new software packages for R.
Data Science in R details how data science is a combination of statistics, computational science, and machine learning. You ll see how to efficiently structure and mine data to extract useful patterns and build mathematical models. This requires computational methods and programming, and R is an ideal programming language for this.
This book is based on a number of lecture notes for classes the author has taught on data science and statistical programming using the R programming language. Modern data analysis requires computational skills and usually a minimum of programming.
What You Will Learn
Perform data science and analytics using statistics and the R programming language


Visualize and explore data, including working with large data sets found in big data


Build an R package


Test and check your code


Practice version control


Profile and optimize your code

Who This Book Is For
Those with some data science or analytics background, but not necessarily experience with the R programming language.

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About this title

About the Author

Thomas Mailund is an associate professor in bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark. His background is in math and computer science but for the last decade his main focus has been on genetics and evolutionary studies, particularly comparative genomics, speciation, and gene flow between emerging species.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1484226704
• ISBN 13: 9781484226704
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352