Leonard Apeltsin is a senior data scientist and engineering lead at Primer AI, a startup that specializes in using advanced Natural Language Processing techniques to extract insight from terabytes of unstructured text data. His PhD research focused on bioinformatics that required analyzing millions of sequenced DNA patterns to uncover genetic links in deadly diseases.

Data Science Bookcamp is a comprehensive set of challenging projects carefully designed to grow your data science skills from novice to master. Veteran data scientist Leonard Apeltsin sets 10 increasingly difficult exercises that test your abilities against the kind of problems you’d encounter in the real-world. As you solve each challenge, you’ll acquire and expand the data science and Python skills you’ll use as a professional data scientist. Ranging from text processing to machine learning, each project comes complete with a unique downloadable data set and a fully-explained step-by-step solution. Because these projects come from Dr. Apelstin’s vast experience, each solution highlights the most likely failure points along with practical advice for getting past unexpected pitfalls. When you wrap up these 10 awesome exercises, you’ll have a diverse relevant skill set that’s transferable to working in industry.

what's inside

10 in-depth Python exercises with full downloadable data sets

Web scraping for text and images

Organise data sets with clustering algorithms

Visualize complex multi-variable datasets

Train a decision tree machine learning algorithm