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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the humankind has witnessed the emergence of a new generation of mathematical and statistical tools that are reshaping the way of doing business and the future of society. Everything is data nowadays: company clients are tabulated pieces of data, laboratory experiments output is expressed as data, and our own history records through the internet are also made of data. And these data need to be treated, to be taken into account, to have all their important information extracted and to serve business, society, or ourselves. And that is the task of a data analyst.
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Zamora Saiz, A., Quesada González, C., Hurtado Gil, L., Mondéjar Ruiz, D. (2020). Introduction. In: An Introduction to Data Analysis in R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48997-7_1
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