I hate to say it, but Packt's handling of its Julia publications is rather troubling. I received a request to review this book and told them I wasn't free, but the truth is that I would prefer that they not pubilsh this kind of book at all right now. The blurb refers to several things that may not even exist in JuliaStats, including lists, factors and ANOVA's. I think the whole thing is premature.
-- John On Dec 4, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Wilfred Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I received an email today about being a technical reviewer for a book on > Julia! > > We're currently developing a book titled Mastering Julia aiming at building > statistical models with linear regressions and analysis of variance (ANOVA) > and will be working on probability, probability distributions, and random > variables covering data structures such as matrices, lists, factors, and > data frames. This book is targeted at Intermediate level developer in > statistical languages and one who will be having understanding of Core > elements and applications. > > Would you be interested in acting as reviewer for this book? > > Now, I enjoy Julia, and I'm happy to help promote the language, but I don't > think I'm particularly qualified to be a technical reviewer of a book on > Julia programming. I found this thread on julia-dev: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-dev/HrdpknFgdfk/SAVMyyacT_sJ > where Packt contacted a large number of folks seeking an author. > > Has anyone else received something like this? In principle, I'm all in favour > of producing promotional or teaching materials, but I'm surprised it lead to > me being contacted.
