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Chris Albon

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Chris Albon is data scientist with a Ph. D. in quantitative political science and a decade of experience working in statistical learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering.
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An Introduction to Statistical Learning
with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani - 2021-07-30
Chris Albon
2023-03-03T23:38:55.000Z
This book is responsible for my entire career.      source
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Fluent Python
Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming
Luciano Ramalho - 2022-05-10 (first published in 2015)
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Python's simplicity lets you become productive quickly, but often this means you aren't using everything it has to offer. With the updated edition of this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to write effective, modern Python 3 code by leveraging its best ideas.Don't waste time bending Python to fit patterns you learned in other languages. Discover and...
Chris Albon
2020-08-09T19:05:24.000Z
I’ve read Fluent Python three times cover to cover. Every time there has been a moment when I thought “OH shit, is THAT how it works?!?!”      source
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A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research
Will H. Moore - 2013-08-11
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Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "math camp" or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. Available textbooks are written for mathematics or economics majors, and fail to conv...
Chris Albon
2020-07-12T01:10:20.000Z
A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research I was a history and social science lover in high school and undergrad, totally disinterested in mathematics. That book was my first step towards finally learning all the math I avoided or ignored in my earlier education.      source
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The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss - 2007-04-01
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This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name o...
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Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow - 2016-11-17
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An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives. Deep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the comp...
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