I wrote my first line of R code in 2010 for a class at the University of Washington (UW). I was hooked once I realized how much more powerful coding is than spreadsheets. Over the past decade, I witnessed the term ‘data science’ come into widespread use and saw the rise and fall of buzzwords like big data, business intelligence, analytics, and now artificial intelligence
Today aspiring data scientists are encouraged to learn a mind-boggling array of modeling techniques. Each method, like linear-regression for example, has its own set of philosophies you inherently agree with by its use (knowing or unknowingly)
