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The Jackass Who Slapped His Face on His Technical Book

11/17/2013

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Now that my book is in the wild, I've been getting a lot of questions:
Why does Excel 2007's nonlinear solver crap out on k-means unlike the newer 3 versions of Excel? 
Why bother calculating t stats manually in the book?
If I want to learn more about data science after finishing this book, should I go back to school?

But my favorite question: 
Why in the world is your face on the cover of your book? and upside down to boot?

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    Hey, I'm John, the data scientist at MailChimp.com.

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