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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom
An indispensable handbook to the art of scepticism from two brilliantly contrarian scientists. We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we?Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Start-up culture eleva...
Data Pipelines With Apache Airflow
Bas P. Harenslak , Julian Rutger de Ruiter
Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow teaches you how to build and maintain effective data pipelines. SummaryA successful pipeline moves data efficiently, minimizing pauses and blockages between tasks, keeping every process along the way operational. ...
Deep Learning for Coders With Fastai and PyTorch
Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
Deep learning is often viewed as the exclusive domain of math PhDs and big tech companies. But as this hands-on guide demonstrates, programmers comfortable with Python can achieve impressive results in deep learning with little math background, smal...
Fundamentals of Data Visualization: A Primer on Making Informative and Compelling Figures
Claus O. Wilke
Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business...
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
This book deals with the theory and practice in the design of data graphics and makes the point that the most effective way to describe, explore, and summarize a set of numbers is to look at pictures of those numbers, through the use of statistical ...