Originally when I wrote the first edition of Thoughtful Machine Learning it was out of frustration with a lack of discipline with co-workers. Back in 2009 I was working on lots of machine learning projects and found that as soon as we introduced support vector machines, neural nets or anything else all of a sudden common coding practice just went out the window.

Thoughtful Machine Learning was a response to that. At the time I focused 100% of my time writing code in Ruby and wrote Thoughtful Machine Learning in Ruby. Well as you could imagine that was a tough challenge and I'm excited to present a new edition of this book rewritten in Python.

I have gone through most chapters, changed examples and made it much more up to date and useful for people who will write machine learning code. I hope you enjoy it.

As I stated in the original edition of Thoughtful Machine Learning: my door is always open. If you want to talk to me for any reason feel free to drop me a line at matt@matthewkirk.com. If you ever make it to Seattle I would love to meet you over coffee.