Statistics: Practical Concept of Statistics for Data Scientists

by John Slavio

This book is your answer.

Statistics are not a tool but rather a set of techniques that you have access to that will help you analyze a set of data that you either generate, receive, or give. Statistics are absolutely vital for those attempting to study Big Data because it allows the scientists studying the data to make sense of the information when the information is on such a large and global scale. Unlike local neighborhood statistics or marketing statistics, big data encompasses a huge range of information and often this big data will be populated by thousands if not millions of data points. Statistics help you break down these data points so that you can reasonably understand them and work with the data that comes into you.


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51 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 4, 2017

Reviews

[Christina Widmann · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had statistics class in university a few years ago. I wanted to fresh up my knowledge with John Slavio's book, but found it confusing and incomplete. Slavio uses special terms and maths shorthand without explaining any of it. His examples are few and far between and don't help the reader understand a thing. Slavio names methods, but never tells us when to use which. Thos book is at the same time difficult and superficial.

[Rutger Painczyk]

If you are a person that can understand mathematical concepts simply by reading, then this book may be for you. If you have taken statistics in the past, this will be a good review for you. Most of the topics are covered with one or two paragraphs. I found many of the explanations helpful in that I would now understand enough to be able to move on to other references. If you're working within any of the contexts that the author uses in examples, this also might be a helpful book, offering another way to "look at" an issue. That said, I do not think this is a book for beginners, unless it's being used along with other books. They can also give you problems that you can solve and show how/why you need certain formulas and not others.