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To be honest, some of these ideas have a fairly saturated market. If you write another python tricks & tips book or another data science starter examples book,
by uniqueuid 4y ago
To be honest, some of these ideas have a fairly saturated market. If you write another python tricks & tips book or another data science starter examples book, it might sell some copies and make some money. But it probably won't contribute a lot unless you have some extremely good and new ideas and can execute them consistently.
Medium-complexity books are much more interesting but also harder to write.
"in pictures" books are also great; I feel we don't have enough of them. But they are also not very simple, because if you can't use animation, some phenomena are kind of hard to convey. If you can pull that off for graph theory or statistics, awesome!
Perhaps you should take one hard example from each domain and think about how you would write it.
I.e. How would you explain a gibbs sampler in pictures?
- mjburgess 4y agoI have lots of iPad notes already "in pictures" for these topics, and have many versions of them as I've evolved the diagrams and examples I use... hence the idea (ie., minimising work for myself). I'll see if a draft of my-style sells a few copies, on the topics I have to hand, and then look at outlining a larger series. - Thanks!
- uniqueuid 4y agoThat's a good idea. I would also try and show your notes/diagrams to people (both those who don't know the subject yet and those who do) to get their feedback.
- kaybe 4y agoThat sounds like it could also be a series of blog posts, twitter posts or whatever that is then sold in book form. Depending on the popularity this might work as well - there are many examples.