Ground Truth Books

Ground Truth Books publishes practical technical books on computer science, IT tools, data science, machine learning, software engineering and AI.

The name comes from machine learning, where "ground truth" means the real, verified answers you check a model against. That's how these books are made. They're researched and drafted with AI assistance, and then checked against reality. Examples are run against real captures and data in a lab, and those runs are cited like any other source, so you can see which output came straight from the tool. Every claim is cited to its source, with official documentation, specifications and source code preferred over blog posts.

Each book is built around doing the work. Chapters end with exercises, and an appendix gives worked answers you can reproduce on your own machine, using the same freely available data and captures.

Books are updated when the tools change. If you find an error, please report it: a corrected edition is free for every reader, which is one of the best things about Leanpub.