Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R - Hardcover

by Rafael A. Irizarry (Author)

Thoroughly revised and updated, this is the first book of the second edition of Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R. It introduces skills that can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges. No previous knowledge of R is necessary.

Author Biography

Rafael A. Irizarry is professor and chair of Data Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, professor of biostatistics at Harvard, and a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the International Society of Computational Biology. Prof. Irizarry is an applied statistician and during the last 25 years has worked in diverse areas, including genomics, sound engineering, and public health surveillance. He disseminates solutions to data analysis challenges as open source software, tools that are widely downloaded and used. Prof. Irizarry has also developed and taught several data science courses at Harvard as well as popular online courses.