Release day has arrived: Finding Ghosts in Your Data is now officially available in softcover and as an e-book. You can get it wherever fine books are sold, assuming they also sell less-fine books as well. I had intended to blog more about the book but ended up getting really busy and writing the thing…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 8
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Streamlit Chapter 8 was all about visualization and ended up being an…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 7
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Approaching Normality Chapter 6 looked at an initial slate of tests. In…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 6
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Getting MAD Chapter 6 is where we start diving into techniques. We…
Writing Testable Code: the Functional Approach
In yesterday's post, I covered the resources I used for chapter 5 and teased an approach to writing testable code. Today, I want to give you a sneak peek at Finding Ghosts in Your Data and show you an excerpt from chapter 5 of the book. Note that this is text from the first draft,…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 5
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Is This Thing On? The theme for chapter 5 is testing, so…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 4
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Sundry Links Chapter 4 is all about building the framework for an…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 3
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I’ll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn’t a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Articles Chapter three of the book is all about the process of…
Interesting Resources for Chapter 2
For each chapter in Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I'll include a few resources that I found interesting. This isn't a bibliography, strictly speaking, as I might not use all of these in the course of writing, but they were at least worth noting. Books Gestalt in Photography by Aischa Erten. I have a book…
Image Contrast and Color in Print
In the process of writing chapter 2 of Finding Ghosts in Your Data, I used quite a few images to tell a story. I've used many of these images in other contexts, but ended up needing to make changes to increase contrast and deal with the lack of color. Forthwith are two examples. Example 1:…