Thread by @mdancho84

What could go wrong?

LOL. 😂

Plus the 3 #datascience books that helped me learn #stats the most. 🧵

#rstats

I’m not saying you need to be an expert in advanced calculus to do machine learning…

BUT, there is a big difference between someone that does vs someone that does NOT have a good foundation in stats when it comes to getting & explaining business results.

My thought process back in the day was to obtain a great foundation in stats and machine learning at the same time.

So here’s what helped me. I read a ton of books.

Here are the 3 books that helped me learn data science the most...

1. R for Data Science (Wickham & Grolemund) r4ds.had.co.nz

2. Introduction to Statistical Learning (James, Witten, Hastie, & Tibshirani) statlearning.com

3. Applied Predictive Modeling (Kuhn & Johnson) appliedpredictivemodeling.com

Keep in mind that I’ve read 300+ books on stats, ML, time series, …

But these were the 3 best. Ones I got a ton of applied value out of.

Now you’re probably thinking reading these 3 books will take a long time, and still might not get you the whole way to data scientist.

That’s why I want to help you speed up the process.

So it doesn’t take you 5 years to learn data science (like it did me).

I compiled the top 10 most important skills that helped me learn and get results from data science.

And I put these top 10 data science skills into a FREE 40-minute webinar.

Enjoy!

learn.business-science.io/free-rtrack-ma…