Preface
Welcome to Public Policy Analytics: Code and Context for Data Science in Government, a book published by CRC Press as part of its Data Science Series. The data for this book can be found online.1
The goal of this book is to make data science accessible to social scientists, and City Planners in particular. I hope to convince readers that a person with strong domain expertise plus intermediate data skills can have a greater impact in government than the sharpest computer scientist who has never studied economics, sociology, public health, political science, criminology, etc.
Public Policy Analytics was written to pass along the knowledge I have personally gained from so many gifted educators over the last 20 years. They are too many to ...
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