An Introduction to Data Science by Jeffrey S. Saltz and Jeffrey M. Stanton is an easy-to-read first data science textbook for those with no prior coding experience. The book is designed for students taking any introductory data science course in undergraduate, certificate, or graduate programs. An Introduction to Data Science uses the R platform to make data science welcoming and accessible for all learners. Short chapters allow instructors to group concepts together for a semester course and provide students with manageable amounts of information for each concept. After introducing the basic foundations of data science, the book builds on each previous concept to explain R programming from the ground up, starting with installation and continuing through data munging, formatting, data visualization, text mining, and model building, concluding with big data and setting students up for further courses in data science. Unique features to help students cement their knowledge of data science include learning objectives, chapter challenge exercises, R code examples throughout, basic summaries of statistics, and a companion site with digital resources and code.
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