Data Science for Software Engineers

Our goal is to create an introduction to data science for software engineers that uses software engineering questions and data to introduce common statistical tools and methods. Help is welcome, but please note that all contributors must abide by our Code of Conduct.

Learner Persona

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Lessons

Appendices

Acknowledgments

• Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry and received ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award in 2020.

We are grateful to:

• Steve McConnell and Robert Glass, whose books sent us down this road years ago [McConnell2004].
• Derek Jones for [Jones2019], the many contributors to [Oram2010], and everyone else who is trying to make software engineering an evidence-based discipline.
• [RStudio][rstudio] for supporting [Yim Register][register-yim]'s work in 2019.
• [Raniere Silva][silva-raniere] and Shashi Kumar for technical assistance.
• [David Graf][graf-david] for [doi2bib][doi2bib] and [Alexandra Elbakyan][elbakyan-alexandra] for [Sci-Hub][scihub], without whom this work would not have been possible.

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