Book Review: R for Business Analytics, A Ohri
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After assisting and helping R users navigate through the dense forest of various GUI interface choices (in order to get R up and running), Mr. Ohri continues to handhold users through step by step approaches (with detailed screen captures) to run R from various simple to more advanced platforms (e.g. CLOUD, EC2) in order to gather, explore, and process data, with detailed illustrations on how to use R’s powerful graphing capabilities on the back-end.
The book has something for both beginning R users (who may be experienced in data science, but want to start learning how to apply R towards their field), and experienced R users alike (many, like myself, may find it useful to have a very broad coverage of the myriad number of packages and applications available, complemented by quickly accessible tutorial based illustrations). In summary, the book has an extremely broad coverage of R’s many packages that can be used towards business data analysis, with a very hands on approach that can help many new users quickly come up to speed and running on utilizing R’s powerful capabilities– on the down-side, it is short on depth and mathematical rigour (leaving the door open to pursue several more specialized R texts).
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