Data Science at the Command Line: Free Online Book

Data Science at the Command Line

by Jeroen Janssens, one of the few books focuses on the use of command line tools to learn Data Science is available now for free online at

• https://www.datascienceatthecommandline.com/.

The book teaches the power of command line to do data science more effectively. It covers over 80 command line tools in combination with R, Python and Bash to data science.

Thrilled to announce that my book “Data Science at the Command Line” (@OReillyMedia, 2014) can now be read online for free! https://t.co/VmUoa146Gu pic.twitter.com/X9cxRr3nTO

— Jeroen Janssens (@jeroenhjanssens) January 24, 2018

The preface of the book has the really background story of how the idea of the book came to fruition.

In September 2013, I decided to write a blog post titled Seven Command-line Tools for Data Science, which is available at

• http://www.jeroenjanssens.com/2013/09/19/seven-command-line-tools-for-data-science.html.

To my surprise, the blog post got quite some attention and I received a lot of suggestions of other command-line tools. I started wondering whether this blog post could be turned into a book. I’m pleased that, some ten months later, with the help of many talented people (see the acknowledgments below), the answer is a yes.

Go check out the book at http://datascienceatthecommandline.com/ or get a physical copy at Amazon.