Introduction to Data Science
Rafael A. Irizarry
The first volume of Rafael Irizarry’s data science book, which began as the notes for the HarvardX Data Science series. It teaches R and the tidyverse, data visualization with ggplot2 and its principles, and data wrangling (reshaping, joining, dates, web scraping, strings, text analysis), and finishes with Unix, Git and reproducible projects. A second volume on statistics and prediction algorithms is also free online.
What you'll learn
- R basics and the tidyverse
- Visualizing data with ggplot2
- Principles of good data visualization
- Reshaping, joining and cleaning data
- Scraping the web and processing text
- Unix, Git and reproducible projects
