Going into this I didn’t know a thing about statistics. Coming out I feel I know more than I did. That is a big positive for not just this book, but this series as a whole. I always feel that I learn something. However, I found myself zoning out in some parts, some parts were so complicated and not thoroughly enough covered, and other parts were almost unreadable. I give this book 2 stars, I’m glad I read it, but I don’t need to again.

A bit shallow and not exactly enough for intro. But I would pass this to people before they decide to become a data scientists or take on a data project

I read this as a refresher to prepare for teaching high school stats, and all it really did was remind me of the names of concepts that I once learned and definitely need to review more in-depth. This book is only helpful if you already know the basics of statistics.

• Chicago Public Library: www.chipublib.org/
• New York Public Library: www.nypl.org/
• The British Library: www.bl.uk/
• US Library of Congress: https://loc.gov/
• World Bank open database: https://data.worldbank.org/
• International Monetary Fund database portal: www.imf.org/en/
Data•Bank for International Settlements statistics portal: www.bis.org/ statistics/
• World central banks guide website listing: www.centralbanksguide
.com/central+banks+list/
• US Census Bureau database: www.census.gov/

The idea of this book was very promising: a quick primer on Statistics that would help me take a small step towards understanding data science. I got tired of it eventually.

I am either missing large parts of mathematical understanding or the book has been carelessly written and edited. In many sections, I faced a complete disconnect between two paragraphs and I couldn’t resolve that even on multiple re-reads. And then there were errors in numbers (typos, but repeated often) that would completely throw me off in understanding the data the author is trying to describe. I doubted myself in the beginning but I saw that this was a repeated pattern in the book.

I eventually gave it up and will look out for another book on this topic.