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A review by mdzhang
Think Stats by Allen B. Downey
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Overall a clear, easy to follow intro to a variety of introductory topics in statistics with code snippets provided in Python.
My primary gripe is that the code snippets frequently use functions that are unexplained before they are used, or IMO unnecessarily introduce the use of OOP, which only makes following along more difficult.
Formatting-wise, I think the book would also benefit from adding syntax highlighting (unless that was just SafariBooks), PEP8 compliant function naming, and the flavor of code snippet line references employed by Fluent Python by Ramalho.
My primary gripe is that the code snippets frequently use functions that are unexplained before they are used, or IMO unnecessarily introduce the use of OOP, which only makes following along more difficult.
Formatting-wise, I think the book would also benefit from adding syntax highlighting (unless that was just SafariBooks), PEP8 compliant function naming, and the flavor of code snippet line references employed by Fluent Python by Ramalho.