Summary
In this chapter, we took a look at some basic mathematical principles that will become very important as we progress through this book. Between logarithms/exponents, matrix algebra, and proportionality, mathematics has a big role not just in analyzing data but in many aspects of our lives.
The coming chapters will take a much deeper dive into two big areas of mathematics: probability and statistics. Our goal will be to define and interpret the smallest and biggest theorems in these two giant fields of mathematics.
It is in these next few chapters that everything will start to come together. So far in this book, we have looked at math examples, data exploration guidelines, and basic insights into types of data. It is time to begin to tie all of these concepts together.
