This is the source for the python edition of the Data Science: A First Introduction textbook.
The book is available online at: https://python.datasciencebook.ca/
For the R version of the textbook, please visit https://datasciencebook.ca or the github repository at https://github.com/ubc-dsci/introduction-to-datascience.
This textbook is offered under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. See the license file for more information.
Building the book requires Docker (instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/).
You can build the HTML version of the book on your own machine by running
./build_html.sh
in the root directory of this repository. The book can be viewed in your browser by opening the source/_build/html/index.html
file.
You can build the PDF version of the book on your own machine by running
./build_pdf.sh
in the root directory of this repository. The book can be viewed in a PDF reader by opening source/_build/latex/python.pdf
.
Primary development in this repository happens on the main
branch. If you want to contribute to the book,
please branch off of main
and make a pull request into main
. You cannot commit directly to main
.
The production
branch contains the source material corresponding to the current publicly-viewable version of the book website.
The gh-pages
branch serves the current book website at https://python.datasciencebook.ca.
You can update the live, publicly viewable HTML book by making changes to the source/
folder in the production
branch (e.g. by merging main
into production
).
GitHub will trigger a rebuild of the public HTML site, and store the built book in the root folder of the gh-pages
branch.
Any commit to source/**
on the main
branch (from a merged PR) will trigger a rebuild of the development preview site served at https://python.datasciencebook.ca/dev
.
The built preview book will be stored in the dev/
folder on the gh-pages
branch.
Any PR to source/
will trigger a build of a PR preview site at https://python.datasciencebook.ca/pull###
, where ###
is the number of the pull request.
The built preview book will be stored in the pull###/
folder on the gh-pages
branch.
Any PR to Dockerfile
will trigger a rebuild of the docker image, push it to DockerHub, and update the image tags in the build_html.sh
and build_pdf.sh
scripts on the PR automatically.
This new build environment will be used for the PR deploy preview mentioned above.