15 Math Concepts Every Data Scientist Should Know

Preface

This is not a book about a specific technology or programming language. This is a book about mathematics. And mathematics is a language. It is the language of science, and so it is the language of data science as well. We can say beautiful things with that language. Just as a piece of great literature is more than a large collection of individual letters, a mathematical equation is more than just a collection of symbols. An equation conveys a way of thinking about a data science problem. It conveys a concept or an idea. If you want to fully exploit the power of those ideas and adapt them to your own data science work, you need to move beyond just recognizing the symbols in an equation and move towards understanding what that equation ...