TY - BOOK AU - Nolan,Deborah AU - Lang,Duncan Temple TI - Data science in R: a case studies approach to computational reasoning and problem solving T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC the R series SN - 9781482234817 U1 - 000SA.055 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - R (Computer program language) KW - Statistics KW - Data processing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Predicting location via indoor positioning systems -- 2. Modeling runners' times in the cherry blossom race -- 3. Using statistics to identify spam --4. Processing robot and sensor log files: seeking a circular target -- 5. Strategies for analyzing a 12-gigabyte data set: airline flight delays -- 6. Pairs trading -- 7. Simulation study of a Branching process -- 8. A self-organizing dynamic system with a phase transition -- 9. Simulating blackjack -- 10. Baseball: exploring data in a relational database -- 11. CIA Factbook mashup -- 12. Exploring data science jobs with web scraping and text mining N2 - Data Science in R: A Case Studies Approach to Computational Reasoning and Problem Solving illustrates the details involved in solving real computational problems encountered in data analysis. It reveals the dynamic and iterative process by which data analysts approach a problem and reason about different ways of implementing solutions. ER -