Cassie Kozyrkov is a South African Chief Decision Scientist at Google where she works in Decision Intelligence, an interdisciplinary field that combines data science with behavioral science. She has designed among other courses available on YouTube: Statistical Thinking, a fun course for beginners and experts use to think about statistics in a light-hearted way.
Statistical learning has become an essential tool for anyone wishing to understand data. This free English text provides extensive coverage and practical examples in R. It includes among others: classification, regression, decision trees, Boosting, SVM, Deep Learning, survival analysis, Bayesian analysis.