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title: "Introduction to R for Data Science: A LISA 2020 Guidebook"
author: "Jacob D. Holster"
date: "2022-07-10T21:44:39Z"
tags: [Data Science, Guide, Social Science, R Programming, Python]
link: "https://bookdown.org/jdholster1/idsr/"
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Introduction to R for Data Science: A LISA 2020 Guidebook [...] Data science is emerging as a vital skill for researchers, analysts, librarians, and others who deal with data in their personal and professional work. In essence, data science is the application of the scientific method to data for the purpose of understanding the world we live in. More specifically, data science tasks emerge from an interdisciplinary amalgam of statistical analysis, computer science, and social science research conventions. Although other programming languages such as python exceed R in general popularity, R ...
