Declaring the Objectives

This chapter introduces and explains (yet again, from a developer's perspective) the basic objectives behind statistics for data science and introduces the reader to the important terms and key concepts (with explanations and examples) that are used throughout the book.

In this chapter, we've broken things down into the following topics:

• A primer on the key objectives of data science
• Bringing statistics into data science
• Common terminologies used with statistics and data science