Veridical Data Science

Using real-world data case studies, this innovative and accessible textbook introduces an actionable framework for conducting trustworthy data science. Most textbooks present data science as a linear analytic process involving a set of statistical and computational techniques without accounting for the challenges intrinsic to real-world applications. Veridical Data Science , by contrast, embraces the reality that most projects begin with an ambiguous domain question and messy data; it acknowledg