Books

Unlock the full potential of CatBoost — a powerful gradient boosting library built for structured/tabular data and still underused in practice.In Mastering CatBoost: The Hidden Gem of Tabular AI, you’ll learn how to take advantage of CatBoost’s key strengths: native categorical feature handling, strong accuracy, and fast inference — without brittle preprocessing pipelines.Written for data scientists, ML engineers, and applied researchers, the book covers:Real-world use cases and end-to-end workflowsPractical tuning strategies and diagnosticsInterpretability with SHAP, feature importance, and constraintsDeployment-minded best practices and common failure modesWhether you’re new to CatBoost or ready to go deeper, this is a clear, practical guide to building high-performance tabular models.Early Access is available now, with ongoing updates leading to the full release in 2026.

This book supplements the DM for CS Specialization at Coursera and contains many interactive puzzles, autograded quizzes, and code snippets. They are intended to help you to discover important ideas in discrete mathematics on your own. By purchasing the book, you will get all updates of the book free of charge when they are released.

The recipes in this book are practical answers to the kind of problems that real Django applications encounter, sometimes on the first day of a project and sometimes deep into the life of a codebase that has grown well beyond its original design. This book is written to guide you to utilize Django 6.0 capabilities in your apps with ease of implementation.

Anyone can run INT4 and read off the accuracy drop. This book explains why that number is what it is — building every quantization method from scratch, breaking it on purpose, and measuring the result. Quantization, from the bits up.

A beginner-friendly introduction to machine learning with Python, that is based on the PyCaret and Streamlit libraries. Readers will delve into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence, by easily training and deploying their ML models!

Learn how to implement various feature selection methods in a few lines of code and train faster, simpler, and more reliable machine learning models. Using Python open-source libraries, you will learn how to find the most predictive features from your data through filter, wrapper, embedded, and additional feature selection methods.

Build a compiler to learn how programming languages work. Use low-level assembly to learn how computers work. Walks through a minimal yet complete compiler. Compiles a static-typed language into x64 ELF executables.Simple interpreter.Bytecode compiler.x64 assembly & instruction encoding.Translate bytecode to x64 code.Generate binary executables.

Discover how modern web scraping goes beyond simple scripts. Learn to extract, automate, and transform data from dynamic websites using Python, Playwright, undetected-chromedriver, Chrome DevTools MCP, and AI tools. Packed with hands-on examples and expert tips, this book shows you how to build ethical, scalable, and intelligent scraping workflows that turn raw web content into actionable insights.

This book provides a practical guide to critical data science methods, focusing on their application in credit risk management. Using examples in R and Python, it presents step-by-step processes for applying various analytical techniques while highlighting the importance of aligning methods with the specific characteristics of the data. Designed for practitioners and those with foundational data science and banking knowledge, the book bridges theory and practice with real-world examples.

Master machine learning interpretability with this comprehensive guide to SHAP – your tool to communicating model insights and building trust in all your machine learning applications.

Skip the black-box frameworks. Build a production-grade AI coding agent from scratch in pure Python - cloud or local, tested with pytest, all in a single file.

Pycairo is a great library for creating high quality vector graphics in Python. This book covers the full features of the library in detail, with practical code examples and illustrations, from an author with many years experience in computer graphics software.

Regex doesn't have to feel like cryptic punctuation. Mastering Regular Expressions shows you how patterns really work, how to debug them when they don't and how to use them confidently across nine programming languages. Go beyond memorizing syntax and learn to write regex that's clear, efficient and portable.

Infrastructure automation in 2026 is about building intelligent, resilient, and cloud-native systems at scale. Server Automation with Python: The 2026 Edition explores modern Python-driven workflows spanning GitOps, immutable infrastructure, cloud SDKs, chaos engineering, and AI-assisted development, providing practical guidance for creating secure, scalable, and self-healing platforms.