Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python: Joel Grus: 9781491901427: Amazon.com: Books

The book definitely provides the ability to do data analysis from scratch. However, I took that to mean it would provide me with the basic knowledge to do data science as its done in production. What you want find hardly anywhere in this book is a single discussion of how to use pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, matplotlib, or any of the other tools used by today's data scientists. It does provide you with the basics of how the analysis is done and the math behind a bunch of machine learning models. So, while I think this book had value, it was very different from what I was expecting. I think the target audience for this book is more an academic looking to apply their knowledge to a data science realm, and not so much a programmer wanting to learn how to actually implement machine learning or data analysis in code.