Introduction
Some years ago, Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, confidently claimed that “the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.” In the years since he made that claim, two things have happened: we’ve started calling statisticians data scientists, and the profession has seen enormous growth, both in demand for skilled practitioners and in salaries.
The supply of skilled data scientists has not kept up with the demand. Part of the aim of this book is to help solve that problem by introducing you to all of the main data science techniques being used at today’s top firms. Explanations come with working, thoroughly explained ...
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