Preface

These are the course notes for the Introduction to data science course of the Data Science Master’s at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of computer and information science.

The authors would like to thank the people who contributed to these notes with their reviews, comments and suggestions: Tomaž Curk, Janez Demšar, Jure Demšar, Dejan Lavbič, Matjaž Pančur, Gregor Pirš, Marko Robnik Šikonja.

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