You’ve probably heard of at least some of these disciplines:

• machine learning
• computer science
• statistics
• probability
• software engineering
• pattern recognition
• knowledge discovery
• computer engineering
• data mining
• data analytics
• data engineering
• artificial intelligence
• visualization

And there are …

A few months ago I reviewed a new book on R, called Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R, Second Edition, by Owen Jones, Robert Maillardet, and Andrew Robinson. I liked the book — R is becoming more popular and widely used as a language and tool to parse and process the …

With the explosion of the amount of data available, the need for stronger data analysis tools than Excel has grown. Fortunately one of the best data analysis tools, R, is also free. This book, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using R, Third Edition, by Torsten Hothorn and Brian Everitt, provides …