Chapter 3. Data all around us: the virtual wilderness
This chapter covers
- Discovering data you may need
- Interacting with data in various environments
- Combining disparate data sets
This chapter discusses the principal species of study of the data scientist: data. Having possession of data—namely, useful data—is often taken as a foregone conclusion, but it’s not usually a good idea to assume anything of the sort. As with any topic worthy of scientific examination, data can be hard to find and capture and is rarely completely understood. Any mistaken notion about a data set that you possess or would like to possess can lead to costly problems, so in this chapter, I discuss the treatment of data as an object of scientific study.
3.1. Data as the ...
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