Название: Advancing into Analytics: From Excel to Python and RАвтор: George Mount
Издательство: O’Reilly Media
Год: 2021-01-22
Формат: epub/pdf(conv.)
Страниц: 180
Размер: 10.3 Mb
Язык: English
Data analytics may seem daunting, but if you’re familiar with Excel, you have a head start that can help you make the leap into analytics. Advancing into Analytics will lower your learning curve.
Author George Mount, founder and CEO of Stringfest Analytics, clearly and gently guides intermediate Excel users to a solid understanding of analytics and the data stack. This book demonstrates key statistical concepts from spreadsheets and pivots your existing knowledge about data manipulation into R and Python programming.
With this practical book at your side, you’ll learn how to:
Explore a dataset for potential research questions to check assumptions and to build hypotheses
Make compelling business recommendations using inferential statistics
Load, view, and write datasets using R and Python
Perform common data wrangling tasks such as sorting, filtering, and aggregating using R and Python
Navigate and execute code in Jupyter notebooks
Identify, install, and implement the most useful open source packages for your needs
And more