data science: 2 posts

Data Science From Scratch


I received some more bookstore gift certificates, so I went ahead and picked up a copy of the second edition of Data Science From Scratch by Joel Grus. Apparently, it gives the beginner a chance to jump into data science without going right to the big libraries Pandas and scikit-learn, so I figured it was worth the money and the time since I'm a first-principles kind of guy. Data Science From…

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Hands-On Machine Learning With Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow


I was looking for a hard-copy machine learning text, and I came across this one at Kinokuniya, a big bookstore here in Tokyo. Looks promising, though it came at a hefty price - $80 US. Fortunately, I have a bunch of gift certificates for most bookstores in Japan. Hands-On Machine Learning With Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow

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