Preface

According to an article in Harvard Business Review, a data scientist's job is the best job of the 21st century. With the massive explosion in the amount of data generated, and with organizations becoming increasingly data-driven, the requirement for data science professionals is ever increasing.

R Data Science Essentials will provide a detailed step-by-step guide to cover various important concepts in data science. It covers concepts such as loading data from different sources, carrying out fundamental data manipulation techniques, extracting the hidden patterns in data through exploratory data analysis, and building complex, predictive, and forecasting models. Finally, you will learn to visualize and communicate the data analysis to an audience. This book is aimed at beginners and intermediate users of R, taking them through the most important techniques in data science that will help them start their data scientist journey.