This book provides educational analysts and educators with practical tools to start working in data science and data analysis - using the data usefully that is generated by school districts, government agencies, and education businesses. The authors demonstrate the principles of analysis working with R and walkthrough various scenarios and projects to show the outcome of the analysis. The book will teach education professionals to apply programming and statistics to prepare data, transform it, visualize it, and analyze it to answer questions that are pertinent to their daily roles"--