Beginning Data Science in R 4: Data Analysis, Visualization, and Modelling for the Data Scientist

Conclusions

Well, this is the end of the book but hopefully not the end of your data science career. I have said all I wanted to say in this book. There are many things I have left out—text processing, for instance. R is not my favorite language for processing text, so I don’t use it, but it does have functionality for it. It just goes beyond the kind of data we have looked at here. If you want to process text, like genomes or natural languages, you need different tools than what I have covered in this book. I have assumed that you are just working on data frames. It made the book easier to write, which matched my laziness well. But it doesn’t cover all that data science is about. For more specialized data analysis, you will need to look elsewhere. ...