Grus - Data Science from Scratch

by Joel Grus

Copyright 2019 Joel Grus. All rights reserved.

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[LSI]

I am exceptionally proud of the first edition of Data Science from Scratch.It turned out very much the book I wanted it to be. But severalyears of developments in data science, of progress in the Python ecosystem,and of personal growth as a developer and educator have changed what Ithink a first book in data science should look like.

In life, there are no do-overs. In writing, however, there are second editions.

Accordingly, Ive rewritten all the code and examples using Python 3.6(and many of its newly introduced features, like type annotations). Ive woven into the book an emphasis on writing clean code. Ive replaced some ofthe first editions toy examples with more realistic ones using realdatasets. Ive added new material on topics such as deep learning, statistics, andnatural language processing, corresponding to things that todays data scientistsare likely to be working with. (Ive also removed some material that seems less relevant.)And Ive gone over the book with a fine-toothed comb, fixing bugs, rewriting explanations thatare less clear than they could be, and freshening up some of the jokes.

The first edition was a great book, and this edition is even better. Enjoy!

• Joel Grus
• Seattle, WA
• 2019