An Introduction to Statistical Learning in R ISLR, one of the best books to learn statistical learning, has a cousin now, Statistical Learning in Python. An Introduction to Statistical Learning in Python by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jonathan Taylor has been out recently. And just like the ISL in R, […]
Book Review
Book Review: Learn Coding Basics with Python for Kids
Recently I have been on the look out for buying a book or two for learning to code in Python, but for kids age 10 and above. Definitely there are a few options out there, but it was not easy to come up with a book to start with. Here is a bit of background. […]
Python Machine Learning Third Edition: Book Review
Finally got a chance to get a look at Sebastian Raschka’s Third Edition of Python Machine Learning with the focus on Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow 2. It is a big book and around for a while in ML/DL time scales. I always wanted to check it. Thanks to the […]
Data Science From Scratch 2nd Edition: Book Review
The second edition of Data Science from Scratch, First Principles with Python from Joel Grus is here (since the summer of 2019). The first edition of the book came about 4-5 years ago when data science as a field was nascent and majority of Python was in 2.7. There are two aspects to learn data […]
Book Review: Fundamentals of Data Visualization
Finally got a chance to write down quick thoughts on Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures by Claus Wilke. ICYMI, Fundamentals of Data Visualization is a fantastic book on data visualization that was developed openly, freely available and just recently the physical book is available for purchase. I have […]