I don't really have anything against Chollets book, but introduction to statistical learning is an absolutely fantastic introduction to the modelling part of data science.
Start there to get better intuitions, then practice practice practice.
It helps if you try to get data to answer your own questions, as there's a lot more motivation in doing that rather than Iris or MNIST.
disgruntledphd2|5 years ago
I don't really have anything against Chollets book, but introduction to statistical learning is an absolutely fantastic introduction to the modelling part of data science.
Start there to get better intuitions, then practice practice practice.
It helps if you try to get data to answer your own questions, as there's a lot more motivation in doing that rather than Iris or MNIST.