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This document provides an introduction to a course on data science with R. It discusses key topics that will be covered like working with data, descriptive statistics, data visualization, statistical modeling, machine learning, and deploying models to production. An overview of the data science process is also provided, which involves finding questions, preparing data, exploring data, creating models, evaluating models, and deploying models. The importance of data science is discussed in the context of the internet of things, big data, and how it is driven by economics and new technologies.

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Data Science With R

This document provides an introduction to a course on data science with R. It discusses key topics that will be covered like working with data, descriptive statistics, data visualization, statistical modeling, machine learning, and deploying models to production. An overview of the data science process is also provided, which involves finding questions, preparing data, exploring data, creating models, evaluating models, and deploying models. The importance of data science is discussed in the context of the internet of things, big data, and how it is driven by economics and new technologies.

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Data Science with R

INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE

Matthew Renze
DATA SCIENCE CONSULTANT

@matthewrenze www.matthewrenze.com
The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to
process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to
communicate it—that’s going to be a hugely important
skill in the next decades, … because now we really do
have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the
complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand
that data and extract value from it.

Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist


The McKinsey Quarterly, Jan 2009
Source: Indeed.com
Source: Dice Salary Survey 2014
Source: O’Reilly 2015 Data Science Salary Survey
Introduction to Data Science
Introduction to R
Course
Overview Working with Data
Creating Descriptive Statistics
Creating Data Visualizations
Creating Statistical Models
Handling Big Data
Predicting with Machine Learning
Deploying to Production
Purpose

Data Science with R


(high-level introduction)

In-depth In-depth In-depth In-depth


course 1 course 2 course 3 course 4
Audience

Developers Data analysts IT professionals


Prerequisites

Basic Basic
programming statistics
experience experience
What Is Data Science?

Computer Math and


Science Statistics
Data
Science

Domain
Knowledge
What Is a Data Scientist?

Performs data science


Proper accreditations
More than a scientist
More than an analyst
More than a developer
Data Science Skills

Programming Statistical modeling


Working with data Handling Big Data
Descriptive statistics Machine learning
Data visualization Deploying to production
Source: O’Reilly 2015 Data Science Salary Survey
Why Is Data Science Important?

Internet of Things
Big Data
Machine learning
Fully autonomous systems
Why Is Data Science Important?

Driven by economics
Possible by technology
Cost is decreasing
Value is increasing
The Data Science Process

Find a
question

Deploy
Explore
the
the data
model

Evaluate Data Prepare


the
the data
model

Create a
model
The Data Science Process

Find a
question

Iterative process Deploy


the
Explore
the data
model
Non-sequential
Early termination
Evaluate Data
Established processes
Prepare
the
the data
model

Create a
model
Summary
Introduction
Course Overview
Introduction to Data Science

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