Book Reviews

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg offers an engaging mix of science and storytelling, exploring how habits form, their impact on individuals and organizations, and how they can be reshaped for positive change.

Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data

A review of the Python Data Science Handbook, which covers IPython, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib and machine learning with Scikit-Learn, and was written by Jake VanderPlas.

Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook

A review of the Python Text Processing with NLTK 2.0 Cookbook that covers text categorization, topic identification, stemming, lemmatization, tokenization, corpus creation and more.

Mining the Social Web

A review of the book Mining the Social Web about collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.