- By Abhijeet Katte
R is without a doubt one of the most sought-after software tools for today’s data scientist. It is very flexible, powerful and enables the user to access many algorithms and statistical tools and techniques with ease. It also works well with many large data sets. The book by Seema Acharya, Data Analytics Using R (McGraw Hill Education, 2018) is a timely book for R practitioners.
Seema Acharya is a senior lead principal at Infosys and her experience clearly reflects in the large textbook for R. The book consists of over 300 self-assessment progress questions, more than 10 practical hands-on experience and 200+ multiple choice questions for any practitioner to test his/her knowledge. The best feature in the book is definitely the fact that it starts from the basics. Basic syntax and algor
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Abhijeet Katte
As a thorough data geek, most of Abhijeet's day is spent in building and writing about intelligent systems. He also has deep interests in philosophy, economics and literature.
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