Download or read book Data Science from Scratch written by Joel Grus and published by O'Reilly Media. This book was released on 2015-04-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first-principles-based, practical introduction to the fundamentals of data science aimed at the mathematically-comfortable reader with some programming skills. The book covers: The important parts of Python to know The important parts of Math / Probability / Statistics to know The basics of data science How commonly-used data science techniques work (learning by implementing them) What is Map-Reduce and how to do it in Python Other applications such as NLP, Network Analysis, and more