Data Science in R: A Case Studies Approach to Computational Reasoning and Problem Solving

Data Manipulation and Modeling Predicting Location via Indoor Positioning Systems Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang Modeling Runners' Times in the Cherry Blossom Race Daniel Kaplan and Deborah Nolan Using Statistics to Identify Spam Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang Processing Robot and Sensor Log Files: Seeking a Circular Target Samuel E. Buttrey, Timothy H. Chung, James N. Eagle, and Duncan W. Temple Lang Strategies for Analyzing a 12 Gigabyte Data Set: Airline Flight Delays Michael Kane Simulation Studies Pairs Trading Cari Kaufman and Duncan Temple Lang Simulation Study of a Branching Process Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang A Self-Organizing Dynamic System with a Phase Transition Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang Simulating Blackjack Hadley Wickham Data- and Web-Technologies Baseball: Exploring Data in a Relational Database Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang CIA Factbook Mashup Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang Exploring Data Science Jobs with Web Scraping and Text Mining Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang Index Exercises appear at the end of most chapters.