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Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by samstokes »

avitous wrote: post #19
BinRoo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup! The eBook is here: http://www.packtpub.com/haskell-data-analysis-cookbook/book

Easy enough to get it onto a Kindle after buying from the Packt site, but +1 to looking into getting it on Amazon's Kindle store as dealing with Packt was less than stellar. On first visiting Packt site (thru link on your website) the paper+ebook bundle was shown as $43.99, and I sometimes spring for those if they're discounted enough, especially pre-order (as this is, or used to be anyway). On clicking through that…

I got the same error message - "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site admin, if the problem persists." Packt also signs me up to 5 newsletters (not that Amazon doesn't, but that's a problem I already had :)).

Still, an ebook this substantial for $10 is awesome. I hope the Packt discount isn't eating into the author's profits :(

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by samstokes »

This is an excellent landing page for a technical book. I haven't seen this style before, but the code snippet and details for each chapter gave me a good idea not just of the book's content, but of its emphasis and assumptions.

It suggested that this was a book about solving practical problems (e.g. all the bullet points about file formats, integration points like databases/Twitter/IRC, visualisation), assuming some Haskell knowledge (little time spent on Haskell concepts) but little machine learning knowledge (bullets showed elementary topics like MD5 alongside more advanced topics like perceptual hashing).

Based on this landing page, I bought the book; I probably would not have done so based only on the title and a synopsis.

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by ganeumann »

avitous wrote: post #19
BinRoo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup! The eBook is here: http://www.packtpub.com/haskell-data-analysis-cookbook/book

Easy enough to get it onto a Kindle after buying from the Packt site, but +1 to looking into getting it on Amazon's Kindle store as dealing with Packt was less than stellar. On first visiting Packt site (thru link on your website) the paper+ebook bundle was shown as $43.99, and I sometimes spring for those if they're discounted enough, especially pre-order (as this is, or used to be anyway). On clicking through that…

I just clicked through to Packt and the ebook was $26.39. Dynamic pricing?

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by polymatter »

samstokes wrote: post #22

This is an excellent landing page for a technical book. I haven't seen this style before, but the code snippet and details for each chapter gave me a good idea not just of the book's content, but of its emphasis and assumptions. It suggested that this was a book about solving practical problems (e.g. all the bullet points about file formats, integration points like databases/Twitter/IRC, visualisation), assuming some…

I just wanted to say I agree entirely with this. It gives me great confidence that this book was well thought out when the chapter by chapter snippets are so clear and concise. I like the drawings too that gives my imagination something to grab onto and breaks it up a little.

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by jonnybgood »

m0nastic wrote: post #5

I'm excited to read this, I just bought a copy. I'm presently debating between using Haskell or Clojure for data analysis here at work (or most likely some combination of the two), so the timing couldn't be better.

For Clojure, there's the Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook[0] and Clojure for Machine Learning[1]. Both on my reading list.

[0] http://www.packtpub.com/clojure-data-analysis-cookbook/book

[1] http://www.packtpub.com/clojure-for-machine-learning/book

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by jsw97 »

S4M wrote: post #11
superfunc wrote: post #9

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In what capacity? Speed, ease of use, libraries, safety?

libraries. I expect Python and R to have much more available libraries for machine learning than Haskell/

Exactly. There is not yet a pandas equivalent, there is no scikit-learn, etc. Hopefully this will happen.

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by mark_l_watson »

samstokes wrote: post #21
avitous wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easy enough to get it onto a Kindle after buying from the Packt site, but +1 to looking into getting it on Amazon's Kindle store as dealing with Packt was less than stellar. On first visiting Packt site (thru link on your website) the paper+ebook bundle was shown as $43.99, and I sometimes spring for those if they're discounted enough, especially pre-order (as this is, or used to be anyway). On clicking through that…

I got the same error message - "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site admin, if the problem persists." Packt also signs me up to 5 newsletters (not that Amazon doesn't, but that's a problem I already had :)). Still, an ebook this substantial for $10 is awesome. I hope the Packt discount isn't eating into the author's profits :(

I bought the book for $10 also. Yes it does cut into the author's profits, but tech book authors generally don't write motivated for making a lot of money :-) Rather, the advantages are sharing knowledge and meeting a lot of cool people. I have written several books, and writing is a pathway to meeting interesting people.

Re: Today I published an introductory book on Haskell Data Analysis

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Post by BinRoo »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #28

Hello Nishant, I bought the book today and it looks very useful. Thanks! I am in the process of using Haskell for most of my new projects after using Clojure for years.

Hi! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me!
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