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

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.

How a Unix terminal became a data analysis laboratory

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.

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.