Computational and Inferential Thinking

This repository holds the Jupyter Book source for Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science.

To make a change to the book and update inferentialthinking.com

1. Get your copy of this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/data-8/textbook
   

2. Change the file you wish and commit it to the repository.

3. Push your change back to the data-8/textbook repository (ideally via a pull request).

4. That's it a GitHub Action will build the book and deploy it to inferentialthinking.com

How this repository is deployed to inferentialthinking.com

• The textbook at inferentialthinking.com is actually being served from this repository:

  https://github.com/inferentialthinking/inferentialthinking.github.io

  You should not ever directly edit the inferentialthinking.github.io repository

• When you make a change to this repository and push it to the data-8/textbook main branch, the book's HTML will automatically be pushed to https://github.com/inferentialthinking/inferentialthinking.github.io.

• This process is handled by this GitHub Action

Build and preview the text locally

To build locally, pip install -r requirements.txt and then jupyter-book build .

Follow the build instructions on the Jupyter Book guide. The guide has information for how to use the Jupyter Book CLI to build this book. You can find the Jupyter Book build instructions here.