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Design principles for data analysis

FlowingData

To teach, learn, and measure the process of analysis more concretely, Lucy D’Agostino McGowan, Roger D. Hicks explain their work in the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics : The design principles for data analysis are qualities or characteristics that are relevant to the analysis and can be observed or measured.

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Data Analysis Project with PandasStep-by-Step Guide (Ted Talks Data)

Towards AI

Through each exercise, you’ll learn important data science skills as well as “best practices” for using pandas. Through each exercise, you’ll learn important data science skills as well as “best practices” for using pandas. Table of Contents: Exploratory Data Analysis is all about answering a specific question.

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Introduction to Data Science, an open source book

FlowingData

Irizarry, is an open source book that provides, as you might have guessed, an introduction to data science: The demand for skilled data science practitioners in industry, academia, and government is rapidly growing. This book introduces concepts and skills that can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges.

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A wide view of visualization with ‘The Art of Insight’

FlowingData

In the narrowest view of data visualization, you use charts to pull quick, quantitative information from dashboards and reports. Take a few steps back and you get exploratory data analysis and then storytelling. I enjoyed reading and thinking about the less mechanical side of visualizing data.

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Visualization to better see true values in data

FlowingData

Together with its wacky successor, the datasaurus dozen, nothing more dramatically communicates the primacy of visualization in data analysis. Tags: Francis Anscombe , noise , Scientific American To quash this myth, Anscombe devised an ingenious demonstration known as Anscombe’s quartet.

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Introduction to statistical learning

FlowingData

This book is appropriate for anyone who wishes to use contemporary tools for data analysis. Tags: book , learning , R. An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides a broad and less technical treatment of key topics in statistical learning. Each chapter includes an R lab. The PDF version of the book is free to download.

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Top 5 Python project ideas to start a career in programming

Data Science Dojo

Enroll in ‘ Python for Data Science ’ To learn Python and its effective use in data analysis, analytics, machine learning, and data science. 3. Data Analysis Data analysis is an essential skill for many fields, and Python is an excellent language for working with data.

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