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The Data Science Handbook
- firegrind 11y agoThe requested URL "/", is invalid, apparently
- firegrind 11y agonevermind, looks healthier now ...
- oulipo 11y agoCool work, I know Max and he is passionate & loves interviewing people. This is totally worth the read!
- damln 11y agoI just met Max and we had the opportunity to discuss a lot this weekend. The book looks very promising. Just buy it guys.
- rgejman 11y agoIs there a sample chapter? It's hard to know if I want to purchase it without knowing anything about how the book is written or whether it tried to achieve its purpose.
- globuous 11y agoCan't you download it for free, look through it and then "re-purchase" it for a price you feel is fair ?
- atwebb 11y agoThat's what I did, do it pretty often with music as well (man I love bandcamp), if I wind up using it a few times I go pay the asking price.
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- bybjorn 11y agoSample chapter: https://gumroad.com/l/wzchen.com/s/the_data_science_handbook_three_free_sample_chapters.pdf https://gumroad.com/l/wzchen.com/s/the_data_science_handbook...
- stared 11y agoThere is, but no idea why it is so hidden. Table of contents: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bf3241e4b0f0d81bf7ff36/t/55406022e4b07cdd7f9c203d/1430282274546/data_science_handbook_table_of_contents.pdf http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bf3241e4b0f0d81bf7ff... Sample: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bf3241e4b0f0d81bf7ff36/t/55430a6ee4b03b82c61468bf/1430456942860/the_data_science_handbook_three_free_sample_chapters.pdf http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bf3241e4b0f0d81bf7ff...
- djervain 11y agoOn the 'Get the book' link, the last paragraph states: 'We have set a minimum contribution of _FREE and a suggested contribution of $19 to cover the time and investment the four of us put into this book.' The 19$ is the _suggested_ price, the actual sum is up to you. As you guessed it is a collection of interviews.
- baldfat 11y agoLove the business plan. Also love the format in terms of interviews. I have over the years learned more from interviews and just watching someone's workflow and them doing day to day "mundane" work than offical teaching sessions. I am always surprised how experts in fields under value their own mundane work. If people would just share the studpid day to day stuff people would find great value in that even more than their more advanced work. Experts are the one's true genious is the things that are easy for them and not neccesarily the advance stuff.
- bybjorn 11y agoTheir website is down, here's a direct link to the page where you can purchase the book: https://gumroad.com/l/rdHh?wanted=true https://gumroad.com/l/rdHh?wanted=true
- geromek 11y agoBased on my interest in this field I am willing to pay around $5 for the book. However I agree that it is not a fair price. What should I do? Note that it is not a matter of money. I could afford the suggested price or even more but I am not that interested in the topic. Downloading for free is not morally acceptable for me, I would like to support this business plan.
- darkxanthos 11y agoSounds like you pay $5. If you don't buy it the authors will be worse off since they won't have any money.
- geromek 11y agoYeah, although I am not a big fan of "the ends justify the means" saying :)
- ThomPete 11y agoBuy it for $19. Even if your aren't that interested in the topic just one potential insight from that book will make it worth way more than the $19USD.
- stared 11y agoThis sounds naive. Most books have opportunity cost much higher than their added value.
- pawelrychlik 11y agoI'd love to read a sample chapter or at least a few pages before buying the complete book.
- collyw 11y agoCan you not download it for free, and essentially do that?
- Fluid_Mechanics 11y agoFlashy website, but a quick background check of the contributors reveals that they've barely been working at their respective positions for over a year. In any event, kudos on providing an interesting narrative.
- hessenwolf 11y agoMmph. Ja. Skimmed the first three chapters. Not guru material.
- sam1r 11y agoI don't understand how a lack of documented experience correlates with the quality of this handbook. In fact, you might as well assume that W person needs X degree over Y years to become an expert in the field of Z... Not everyone documents how long they have been in the field publicly, and for all you know (or don't know...), some of the contributors (that I personally know myself), have been immersed in the field for years. Also, from a more credible standpoint, majority of the book has direct Q&A + perspectives of some of the best data scientists...
- ankitshah 11y agoThat's probably why they put together the content in the form of a collection of interviews. They don't establish authority of knowledge. They establish authority of intelligent curiosity.
- snowmaker 11y agoI purchased the book. It is just a general series of interviews with high profile data scientists. Kudos to the author for getting some very busy and prominent people to agree to interviews. I think it would be valuable to aspiring data scientists - students who are looking to break into the field. It has good general advice on what backgrounds companies look for and some inspiring and motivational stories. It will not be useful for current data scientists looking for information on how the companies in the book do data science. There are very few technical details included.
- nadam 11y agoI am not a native english speaker and I am wondering why is a book, which is a collection of interviews called a 'handbook'? The definition of a handbook according to wikipedia: "A handbook is a type of reference work, or other collection of instructions, that is intended to provide ready reference."
- ThisIBereave 11y agoAgreed. I was definitely expecting a reference, and I was confused that the table of contents listed the authors & their positions before mentioning the title of the chapter.
- keithpeter 11y agoYour definition of the word 'handbook' seems fine to me. I was expecting a technical reference work of some kind. I am a native English speaker.
- netcan 11y agoHolistic handbook?
- viggity 11y agoif the author is reading this, I'd pay $40 for the audio. I'm assuming you recorded each interview so it could be transcribed. I've got 3 kids and audiobooks/podcasts during my commute is the only realistic time I can consume bulk content.
- pericarus 11y agoThanks for the feedback, Viggity! - we will think about that (we have all the audio, but there is some processing involved...)
- warsheep 11y agoI'm going to sound very aggressive, but I don't understand the point of this book. They say > The material in this book is too valuable not to share. and after reading the sample I feel their definition of valuable doesn't align with mine. It's a "handbook" but the chapters are interviews that don't go in depth into anything. Here's a sample "question" > Compassion is also critical for designing beautiful and intuitive products, by solving the pain of the user. Is that how you chose to work in product, as the embodiment of data? Really? This reads like an onion article about data science.
- willis77 11y agoAs a data scientist, I draw inspiration from the infinite depths of understanding. Life is merely the unfolding of a series of recursive recommendation engines, each one AB testing the local gradients of human emotion. You think you are just buying a pair of socks online. Foolish mortal. That transaction was a multi-armed map-reduce set into motion long before the internet existed. Data science is the internet of things, it is big data at the speed of entropy, quantum mechanics at the scale of desire. In data we trust. All others bring EVEN. MORE. DATA.
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- coherentpony 11y agoYour comment is meaningless. I don't mean that negatively. I mean that it really is meaningless. It's buzzwords connected together with a lack of thought or direction.
- ScottBurson 11y agoIt is clearly satire.
- tonyhburns 11y agoThank you for this! I love the interview format as well. One bit of feedback so far as I haven't actually started reading yet, it would be helpful to have bookmarks in the PDF to be able to jump around. Thanks again!
- gedrap 11y agoSort of related, a couple of free decent books with interviews with data scientists http://www.datascienceweekly.org/pdf/DataScienceWeekly_DataScientistInterviews-Vol2-Dec2014.pdf http://www.datascienceweekly.org/pdf/DataScienceWeekly_DataS... http://www.datascienceweekly.org/pdf/DataScienceWeekly-DataScientistInterviews-Vol1-April2014.pdf http://www.datascienceweekly.org/pdf/DataScienceWeekly-DataS...
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- mceoin 11y agoMax (et. al) - way to go & congrats on publishing!
- asimjalis 11y agoHere is a sample chapter. http://wzchen.com/s/the_data_science_handbook_three_free_sample_chapters.pdf http://wzchen.com/s/the_data_science_handbook_three_free_sam...
- discardorama 11y agoI've been in "data science" since the early days (~1997), but I have heard of just 2 of these 25 people before: Hillary and Kunal. Am I that clueless?
- tezka 11y agothis is the most useless book posted on HN.
- patrickmclaren 11y agoIn the past, when considering the term 'Data Science', I've assumed that this is roughly equivalent to the union of Probability Models, Statistics (with a view towards Decision Theory), CS, and Graphic/Web Design (perhaps throw in some knowledge of Heuristics and Biases too.) The number of individuals with sufficient experience in all of these fields should be significantly smaller than those in any given field alone. I am aware the the demand for Data Scientists is higher than Statisticians at the present, at least in the US. Assuming that there is a non-trivial amount of employed Data Scientists, one is led to the conclusion that there is fairly large portion of under-skilled Data Scientists. My question is, assuming the above hypothesis, do Data Scientists, on average, under-deliver, or are job requirements lowballed to avoid failure? First thoughts would be to compare to Quants, or Actuaries. I have a belief that Data Scientist jobs are created due to the following process: Startup founded => Data collection => Predictive Model Exists => Data Scientist => "Visually confirm" hypothesis and send to marketing department. Obviously, the current order of this chain is not correct. A priori, mere sampling does not simultaneously guarantee regularity and high Fisher information.
- fasteo 11y ago>> Typically, books like this cost between $20 to $30 >> ... too valuable not to share >> ... generosity >> ... share >> ... minimum contribution of FREE >> ... suggested contribution of $19 This is too weird. Is this some kind of social experiment on price framing ?