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Or perhaps you are already a data scientist and are keen to share your knowledge and experience? So why not write a book to support one of the many topics covered in the academy? From preparing data for analysis and reporting; getting started with SAS In-Memory Statistics; to neural network modeling; and experimentation in data science, there are a whole lot of areas you could choose. Inspired?

I’m hoping to meet lots of data scientists and aspiring data scientists next week in Las Vegas at Analytics 2015! If you have any publishing ideas and would like more information then please pop by the SAS Press booth and introduce yourself.

If you’re not going to be attending Analytics 2015 next week, I still want to hear about your data science book ideas. Send your proposal to me by email at saspress@sas.com.

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