[jeroenjanssens]

Author here.

Worth pointing out that the discussion from Sept 19 2013 is actually about a blog post, which predates the book. It's because of the amount of feedback it got on HN that I wondered whether this topic could be turned into a book.

Coincidentally, tomorrow I'll be speaking at the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup [0]. About 11 years ago, I spoke there for the first time. That talk is the reason the aforementioned blog post (and by extension the book) exists.

In short, I owe a lot to that meetup and the HN community. Thanks!

[0] https://nyhackr.org/