Publisher's Synopsis
- Helps readers to transition from traditional statistics to modern data science
- Reviews the pros and cons of open source and commercial software packages, and their proper applications in specific situations.
- Explores data using dynamic methods rather than counting on dichotomous thinking.
- Considers alternate models using ensemble models and model comparison rather than fixing a preconceived hypothesis/model on a single method.
- Shows how to find the hidden pattern in the data by dynamic visualization rather than over-relying on numeric results.