Statistical inference via data science : a ModernDive into R and the tidyverse Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse provides a pathway for learning about statistical inference using data science tools widely used in industry academia and government. It introduces the tidyverse suite of R packages including the ggplot2 package for data visualization and the dplyr package for data wrangling. After equipping readers with just enough of these data science tools to perform effective exploratory data analyses the book covers traditional introductory statistics topics like confidence intervals hypothesis testing and multiple regression modeling while focusing on visualization throughout