OK, you don't build a complete project, but it's a similar approach: Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers http://greenteapress.com/thinkstat

OK, you don't build a complete project, but it's a similar approach: Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ Here, you learn statistics by implementing statistics functions in Python along the way and use them to solve the questions in the book.