This is an extraordinary, wonderful, book, full of wise advice for anyone starting in data science. Kosuke Imai, Harvard University, and author of Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction Telling Stories with Data teaches the entire data science workflow, including data acquisition, communication, and reproducibility. Rohan Alexander’s book will help you do both.Īndrew Leigh, Member of the Australian Parliament, and author of Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our WorldĮvery data analyst has to tell stories with data, and yet traditional textbooks focus on statistical methods alone. That means crunching statistics and telling compelling stories. In the coming decades, those who are adept in analysing data will flourish. Richard McElreath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and author of Statistical RethinkingĪ clever career choice is to pick a field where your skills are complementary with a growing resource. It’s a valuable supplement to any methods curriculum, and useful for self-learners as well. It is a book about doing quantitative research, about scientific justification, about quality control, about communication and epistemic humility. The book includes each stage of the process and can serve as a long-lasting companion to many data scientists and future data story tellers. Telling Stories with Data is a thoughtful guide to using data to learn and affect positive change. By arming students with the computational, statistical and philosophical skills needed to use data in sense-making and story-telling, this book stands out from the pack as uniquely actionable and empowering.Įmily Riederer, Capital One, and author of R Markdown Cookbook Instead, Telling Stories with Data tells you how to engage in the mindset and process of analysis. Many data science texts tell you how to perform perfunctory calculations. Communication and reproducibility are of increasing concern in statistics, and this book covers these topics and more in a practical, appealing, and truly unique way.ĭaniela Witten, University of Washington, and author of An Introduction to Statistical Learning I absolutely love this book!Īndrew Gelman, Columbia University, and author of Regression and Other StoriesĪn excellent book. This clean and fun book covers a wide range of topics on statistical communication, programming, and modeling in a way that should be a useful supplement to any statistics course or self-learning program. You may purchase a print copy of this book from Chapman and Hall/CRC here.
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