Preface

 

"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write."

 
 --H. G. Wells
 

"I have a great subject [statistics] to write upon, but feel keenly my literary incapacity to make it easily intelligible without sacrificing accuracy and thoroughness."

 
 --Sir Francis Galton

A web search for "data science Venn diagram" returns numerous interpretations of the skills required to be an effective data scientist (it appears that data science commentators love Venn diagrams). Author and data scientist Drew Conway produced the prototypical diagram back in 2010, putting data science at the intersection of hacking skills, substantive expertise (that is, subject domain understanding), and mathematics and ...

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