Welcome to the Textsmith Bookshelf. Here we not only encourage textsmiths to read, but to put into practice lessons that had been gleaned over the years by professionals in the industry. Books covering text-processing, system administration, shell scripting and related topics are the staple of a textsmith’s forge: find them, read them and practise what they teach.
The Textsmith Bookshelf
R for Data Science, 2nd Edition
R is a dedicated statistical language. For any textsmith who wants to use R for data analysis, none appeals better than this fre text, R for Data Science
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Programming Perl — The Camel That Still Knows the Desert
What kind of problems was Perl built to solve? Perl, just like awk, continues to thrive because it solves a particular class of problems exceptionally well. Find out from this week’s book review.
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The Textsmith Bookshelf: Data Science at the Command Line
How a Unix terminal became a data analysis laboratory
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The Textsmith Bookshelf: Shell Scripting by Steve Parker
This week’s book helps every textsmith to understand shell scripting—the subject we had been dealing with starting last week. It also complements Efficient Linux at the Command Line by moving from using the shell effectively to teaching it to work for you.
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Efficient Linux at the Command Line
One of the joys of being a textsmith is reading books that reinforce good practical habits on being productive on the terminal. This review of Daniel J. Barrett’s book, Efficient Linux at the Command Line shows why some books are timeless in their approach to their treatment of the terminal.
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