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|  | 1 | +title: About | 
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|  | 5 | +<img src="/images/jake.jpg" align="left" width="150" style="padding-right:20px;"/> | 
|  | 6 | +My name is Jake VanderPlas. | 
|  | 7 | +I am an astronomer by training, and currently am the director open software | 
|  | 8 | +at the University of Washington's | 
|  | 9 | +[eScience Institute](http://escience.washington.edu/), where I spend time on | 
|  | 10 | +research, teaching, and developing software tools for science. | 
|  | 11 | +<br clear="left"/> | 
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|  | 13 | +If you like my blog, you might also like my books: | 
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|  | 15 | +<a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034919.do"><img src="/images/PythonDataScience.jpg" align="left" width="100" style="padding-right:20px;"/></a> | 
|  | 16 | +The *Python Data Science Handbook* by Jake VanderPlas (O'Reilly Media, 2016). This is a comprehensive introduction to the most important data science tools in the Python world. Several examples used in the book are drawn from posts on this blog. | 
|  | 17 | +The content is also available as Jupyter notebooks [on GitHub](http://github.com/jakevdp/PythonDataScienceHandbook).<br clear="left"/> | 
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|  | 19 | +<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/a-whirlwind-tour-of-python.csp"><img src="/images/WhirlwindTour.jpg" align="left" width="100" style="padding-right:20px;"/></a> | 
|  | 20 | +*A Whirlwind Tour of Python* by Jake VanderPlas (O'Reilly Media, 2016). This free e-book is a fast-paced intro to Python aimed at researchers and engineers. It's content is drawn from Python intro courses and tutorials that I have taught over the years. | 
|  | 21 | +The content is also available as Jupyter notebooks [on GitHub](http://github.com/jakevdp/WhirlwindTourOfPython).<br clear="left"/> | 
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|  | 23 | +<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10159.html"><img src="/images/StatisticsDataMining.jpg" align="left" width="100" style="padding-right:20px;"/></a> | 
|  | 24 | +*Statistics, Machine Learning, and Data Mining in Astronomy* by Zeljko Ivezic, Andy Connolly, Jake VanderPlas, and Alex Gray (Princeton Press, 2014). This is a graduate-level text on statistical methods in astronomy, with emphasis on Python code. | 
|  | 25 | +Code from the book is available at [http://astroML.org/](http://astroML.org).<br clear="left"/> | 
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|  | 27 | +Thanks for visiting! | 
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