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.