ellisv 23 minutes ago

These types of books are always interesting to me because they tackle so many different things. They cover a range of topics at a high level (data manipulation, visualization, machine learning) and each could have its own book. They balance teaching programming while introducing concepts (and sometimes theory).

In short I think it's hard to strike an appropriate balance between these but this seems to be a good intro level book.

BenGosub an hour ago

He's a great writer and I miss his blog. He had an awesome post on pivot table that I think is now a part of this book.