When you have chosen a section of the book which particularly appeals to you, begin your actual study by reading the phrases aloud.

Grenville Kleiser, North American author

Appendix 1Further Reading

If you get to this page, you already know that this book doesn’t provide any in-depth coverage of the material and assumes that you mostly know what to do but are not sure how. Here I refer you to several excellent and somewhat overlapping books that provide more details on specific topics.

If you’re not familiar with data science at all and either already know the R language or at least don’t mind learning it, look at An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R [JWHT13] and Practical Data Science with R [ZM14]. The former book ...

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