Whether you are learning data analysis for the first time, or you want to deepen the understanding you already have, this book will prove to an invaluable resource. If you are looking for a book to bring you all the way through the fundamentals to the application of advanced and effective analytics methodologies, and have some prior programming experience and a mathematical background, then this is for you.
Tony Fischetti is a data scientist at College Factual, where he gets to use R everyday to build personalized rankings and recommender systems. He graduated in cognitive science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his thesis was strongly focused on using statistics to study visual short-term memory. Tony enjoys writing and contributing to open source software, blogging at onthelambda, writing about himself in third person, and sharing his knowledge using simple, approachable language and engaging examples. The more traditionally exciting of his daily activities include listening to records, playing the guitar and bass (poorly), weight training, and helping others.