Understand & communicate

  • Visualize:
    • Good dataviz can help find unexpected + raise new questions
    • ggplot2 book has more in-depth details
  • Model:
    • Extract patterns from data
    • Not covered in-depth here, see tmwr.org
  • Communicate:
    • Critical part of DS!
    • It doesn’t matter how good your models are if nobody knows about them.
    • Note: R4DS 2e focuses on Quarto, vs RMarkdown in 1e