Introduction to Data Science

Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R

Rafael A. Irizarry

2022-07-07

Preface

This book started out as the class notes used in the HarvardX Data Science Series¹.

A hardcopy version of the book is available from CRC Press².

A free PDF of the October 24, 2019 version of the book is available from Leanpub³.

A version in Spanish is available from https://rafalab.github.io/dslibro.

The R markdown code used to generate the book is available on GitHub⁴. Note that, the graphical theme used for plots throughout the book can be recreated using the ds_theme_set() function from dslabs package.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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1. https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/harvardx-data-science↩︎

2. https://www.crcpress.com/Introduction-to-Data-Science-Data-Analysis-and-Prediction-Algorithms-with/Irizarry/p/book/9780367357986↩︎

3. https://leanpub.com/datasciencebook↩︎

4. https://github.com/rafalab/dsbook↩︎