Data Science from Scratch

What it does

Joel Grus - Software Engineer, Data Scientist & Best-Selling Author. Available for consulting on data science, machine learning, and software engineering projects.

I am super-excited to announce that the book I've been working on for more than the last year, Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python is finally available! (buy from O'Reilly , use discount code AUTHD to save some money) (buy from Amazon ). Although I am myself a "math person", the first approach never resonated with me. The fun of data science for me has always been working with data . At the same time, I've never been thrilled with the second approach -- it's a good way to start doing data science without ever really understanding what you're doing. Hence Data Science from Scratch . It's got math, but only as much as is totally necessary. It's got scraping and cleaning…from joelgrus.com

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