Data science may be a difficult term to define, but data scientists are definitely in great demand!
Wayne Thompson, Senior Product Manager at SAS, defines data science as a broad field that entails applying domain knowledge and machine learning to extract insights from complex and often dark data. To further help define data science, we have carefully selected a collection of chapters from SAS Press books that introduce and provide context to the various areas of data science, including their use and limitations.
Discovering Data Science with SAS® is a collection of carefully selected chapters from SAS Press books that introduce and provide context to the various areas of data science, including their use and limitations.
Topics covered illustrate the power of SAS solutions that are available as tools for data science, highlighting a variety of domains including data analysis planning, data wrangling and visualization, time series, neural networks, text analytics, decision trees, and more.
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This is a very helpful post for students / data science aspirants who are interested in starting a career in the data science field. This free eBook will help in getting a good understand of what Data Science is and what are the roles of a Data Scientist. Thank you for sharing this.
I've loved the SAS training thus far looking for more.
Learning visualization,Thanks!
Hi Bruno! Customers from outside the US can simply contact us at saspress@sas.com and we will send you the pdf.
Hi! I'm from Brazil and I'd like see this book. How can I do that?
Would like to see if ebook helps
Thanks!
Thanks for the information
A data science student looking to learn