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Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50+ Essential Concepts Using R and Python

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5.0 out of 5 starsIn a word: wow !
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 9, 2023
What a great book! The authors did a marvellous jobs in packing an incredible amount of information in very little pages AND doing it in a very pleasant style that is direct, informative, and extremely clear.
I have read many books in statistics. I can tell you there are very very few written so well and so pleasant to read.
And to top it all, it is one of the very few book of statistics for non-mathematician that *correctly* explain the p-value and t-test. Many statisticians *still* don't understand what that "significance test" really mean. But these authors do understand it very well and this is very important for anyone new to statistics to know this test correctly and in the hand of these authors they *will* learn it correctly.
Thanks a lot to the authors. You did a fabulous job.
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1.0 out of 5 starsVery cheap low quality book
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 7, 2023
overall very low quality book
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1.0 out of 5 stars Very cheap low quality book
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 7, 2023
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overall very low quality book
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Mishtu Banerjee
2.0 out of 5 stars Pages bound wrong
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 2, 2021
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The content of this book is excellent. 3 stars off for (a) -1 star for extremely thin see through pages and -2 stars for poor binding that repeats pages, and has missing pages. After page 152, the book starts again at page 145, proceeds to 152 again, then jumps to page 169. So I am missing OGA 153-168 and have OGA 145-152 twice. Sad, the publisher/printers poor quality control failed the excellence of the author’s texts.
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Bob Lazar
1.0 out of 5 stars Photocopied print, no color.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 14, 2023
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Seems to be a common issue with these O' Reilly books, they are black and white, pretty useless for the graphical portions.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Good.. but looks used!
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2021
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Well definitely the content is the same but it looks used and I paid for a new one!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Good.. but looks used!
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2021
Well definitely the content is the same but it looks used and I paid for a new one!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Black and White Print
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 23, 2022
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Leads to an illegible product.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Content is great, the printed version is pathetic
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 30, 2022
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This has been a common refrain in my review of O'Reilly books. Their technical content is, as usual, excellent and comprehensive. The quality of the printed version is horrendous. The illustrations which were created in color are printed in black and white. As a result, the illustrations are confusing and look faded and would be better off omitted entirely. The printing wanders in and out like it was done on some old dot matrix printer, and the paper seems to be of cheap quality. Quite frankly, it looks like an international version which is usually printed cheaply so that foreign students can afford it.

I'd get a subscription to what was once called Safari Online and read these books online and in color. I'd stay away from printed O'Reilly books unless you can verify that the printing is in color and is a quality job overall. If O'Reilly wants to continue to have my business as far as purchasing print books they should raise the price so that they can deliver a well published product.
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gurls
3.0 out of 5 stars Precise provides good conceptual understanding.
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on October 6, 2022
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Precise provides good conceptual understanding.
Can be used as a guide book to revisit the concepts .
There are no exercises or questions section to evaluate your understanding after covering the topics in a chapter.
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JKSingh
3.0 out of 5 stars Many good concepts in brief
Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on June 17, 2021
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This is a great book covering many concepts that one should learn. This book gives R and Python syntaxes side by side for the analytics. Before going for this book it is highly recommended to learn basics of R or Python as this book is not going to cover the basics. The book explains the principle of statistics and directly jumps to the execution in R and Python. The book does not explain those concepts like t test, chi square test etc in detail and do not have examples to learn those concepts. So one would have to refer to other books to learn comcepts. Also the algorithms like decision tree, KNN etc are not explained in detail. Anyhow, this is a nice book to learn what should one learn and a ready reference to several algorithms. Overall a great collection of concepts in one place. Recommend to read.
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Brendan
3.0 out of 5 stars Python content much worse than R content
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2020
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I read through a previous version of this book when I was mainly using R, and it was incredible. One of the better stats application books I've read. Since I switched to Python this year, I was very happy to see that they released a version with Python content. However, I've thus far been very disappointed. The stats content is still great, but overall, the Python code is very often missing comments, doesn't run properly, or some mix of both. The book is still a good primer on the stats that a data scientist needs, but don't expect the code snippets to provide much guidance.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not New
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 5, 2023
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Book is not new. I understand it's a paper back but clearly it's been mishandled/owned by someone else.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not New
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 5, 2023
Book is not new. I understand it's a paper back but clearly it's been mishandled/owned by someone else.
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