About the Author

Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar has a combined twelve years of experience with R and Python software. He has also authored the books A Course in Statistics with R, Wiley, and Practical Data Science Cookbook, Packt. The author has built three packages in R titled gpk, RSADBE, and ACSWR. He has obtained a PhD (statistics) from Bangalore University under the broad area of survival snalysis and published several articles in peer-reviewed journals. During the PhD program, the author received the young Statistician honors for the IBS(IR)-GK Shukla Young Biometrician Award (2005) and the Dr. U.S. Nair Award for Young Statistician (2007) and also held a Junior and Senior Research Fellowship at CSIR-UGC.

Prabhanjan has worked in various positions in the analytical industry and nearly 10 years of experience in using statistical and machine learning techniques.