In defense of Wes, the book does do a good job of introducing you to IPython and NumPy. I had mainly used Python as a generic scripting language prior to readi

In defense of Wes, the book does do a good job of introducing you to IPython and NumPy. I had mainly used Python as a generic scripting language prior to reading much of this book, mainly writing vanilla scripts in emacs. Afterwards (and with the help of online pandas docs), I felt like I was fairly productive at analyzing some new data that had been thrown my way. I can definitely see why some think that the title is misleading. The book clearly does not aim to survey the field of data analysis in Python. However, it does teach you everything you need to know to start doing data analysis in Python using one particular (good) tool chain.