For SQL Server developers, this must have been quite an exhausting chapter. Of course, the whole chapter is not about the T-SQL language; it's about the R language, and about statistics and advanced analytics. Of course, developers can also profit from the capabilities that the new language has to offer. You learned how to measure associations between discrete, continuous, and combinations of discrete and continuous variables. You learned about directed and undirected data mining and machine learning methods. Finally, you saw how to produce quite advanced graphs in R.
Please be aware that if you want to become a real data scientist, you need to learn more about statistics, data mining and machine learning algorithms, and practice ...
