Think Like a Data Scientist: Tackle the Data Science Process Step-by-Step

Think Like a Data Scientist teaches you a step-by-step approach
to solving real-world data-centric problems. By breaking down carefully crafted examples, you’ll learn to combine analytic, programming, and business perspectives into a repeatable process for extracting real knowledge from data. As you read, you'll discover (or remember) valuable statistical techniques and explore powerful data science software. More importantly, you’ll put this knowledge together using a structured process for data science. When you've finished, you'll have a strong foundation for a lifetime of data science learning and practice.

What’s Inside

• The data science process, step-by-step

• How to anticipate problems

• Dealing with uncertainty

• Best practices in software and scientific thinking

Readers need beginner programming skills and knowledge of
basic statistics. 

Brian Godsey has worked in software, academia, finance, and
defense and has launched several data-centric start-ups.