# Welcome Data Science Lovers

Department of Statistics
Faculty of STEM
Tangerang, Banten
Info: siregarbakti@gmail.com

## Preface

This book is starting from introductory level, hands-on practical courses, designed for smart people with a basic background in maths or statistics, econometrics, and computer science, even without programming experience. It will introduce you to different perspectives of data science, including data processing, analysis, visualization, and modeling. Each chapter would be practically discussed in RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

As you may already know, data science has taken the world by storm. Every field of study and area of business has been affected, as people increasingly realize the value of the incredible quantities of data being generated. But to extract value from those data, one needs to be trained in the proper data science skills. The R programming language has become one of the most famous for data science. It`s flexibility, power, sophistication, and expressiveness have made it an invaluable tool for data scientists around the world.

Herewith, you will learn from the fundamentals of R programming, learn how to write functions, import data, manipulate, visualize, EDA, Modeling, and soon. I highly recommend this book, if you desired to have a solid foundation on which to build your data science journey. So, please enjoy your time to keep learn and practices!