Thanks to all for your speedy replies! I definitely appreciate that there
are non-trivial issues in committing to a project like that. I've got a
copy of ML4H, and will thus follow @ogrisel's suggestion (thanks!)
Best,
Fred.
On 11 February 2013 09:40, Jacob Vanderplas <jake...@cs.washington.edu>wrote:
> Last week an O'Reilly editor I've worked with got in touch with me asking
> if I'd be willing to write such a book. I can't consider it because of my
> current commitments, but if anyone from the dev team (perhaps a few folks
> working together) is interested, I'd be happy to forward them your
> information.
>
> Andy's correct, though: from my experience, writing a book is much more
> work than you might anticipate, and in general the compensation for your
> time is comparatively scant. You'd be doing it for the fame rather than
> the fortune ;)
> Jake
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Andreas Mueller <amuel...@ais.uni-bonn.de
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Fred.
>> Afaik no-one is working on a book currently, though some people have
>> showed interest.
>> Most devs are researchers or have full-time jobs. Writing a book would
>> probably mean quitting jobs
>> for a couple of month, stalling research and basically not making any
>> money (From what I read, writing an O'Reilly book
>> pays less than any research position).
>>
>> So I don't see that happening soon.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/11/2013 06:22 PM, Fred Mailhot wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Is anyone working on a book showcasing scikit-learn? I'm thinking
>> something along the lines of "Mahout In Action", that would showcase each
>> of the parts of scikit-learn and provide a dead-tree reference with a lot
>> of worked-out examples. I suppose it would make sense to wait for a 1.0
>> release for that, though.
>>
>> Cheers & thanks for an awesome toolkit!
>> Fred.
>>
>>
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