Nandan Vatsyayan
2025/07/21
5 / 5
Good introductory book. Provides sufficient depth to python fundamentals, followed by several practical data wrangling examples. Later chapters provide a high level overview of more advanced applications (less code here). I deducted off two stars for two reasons, one for using python 2 instead of 3 (for an introductory book this choice is perplexing). Pretty much all topics, with the exception of the chapter on Scrapy, could have been explained using python 3. Another star deducted for barely a passing mention of the pandas package. Most wrangling examples in the book could be much easier implemented through pandas (although that's a mater of opinion, I feel like there should have been more than just a passing mention of one of python's oft used data wrangling packages)
