In this book, we are going to learn about data analysis from the perspective of the Haskell programming language. The goal of this book is to take you from being a beginner in math and statistics, to the point that you feel comfortable working with large-scale datasets. Now, the prerequisites for this book are that you know a little bit of the Haskell programming language, and also a little bit of math and statistics. From there, we can start you on your journey of becoming a data analyst.
In this chapter, we are going to cover descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics are used to summarize a collection of values into one or two values. We begin with learning about the Haskell Text.CSV library. In later sections, ...