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THE PRACTICAL BOOKSHELF

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Explore 25 practical ebooks across AI, data workflows and business analytics. Read a free sample, inspect the requirements, and choose a guide you can put into practice.

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25 titles

Build an inspectable Python document assistant, study real local-model results and failures, and evaluate retrieval, citations and missing evidence.

For
Python developers building their first document assistant
Bring
Basic Python and command-line familiarity. Python 3.10 or later. The companion code uses the standard library.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

38 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build a transparent evaluation engine for ranked evidence, graded relevance, unknown questions and paired regression analysis.

For
Python developers responsible for document search and RAG evaluation
Bring
Python functions, lists and dictionaries; Basic JSON and terminal commands.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build strict parsing, field validation, evidence correspondence and refusal handling for synthetic extraction responses.

For
Python developers integrating generated data into applications
Bring
Basic Python dictionaries and exceptions; Familiarity with JSON objects and strings.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Create an offline comparison harness with explicit expectations, preserved fixtures, failure reasons and bounded release gates.

For
Python developers maintaining prompts and generated responses
Bring
Python dictionaries, lists and tests; Basic JSON and terminal use.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Inspect word provenance, candidate ranking, context budgets and annotated evidence coverage in a deterministic local lab.

For
Python developers debugging document retrieval and context construction
Bring
Python lists, dictionaries and functions; Basic document retrieval concepts.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build an explicit boundary between an agent's proposed action and a tool's permitted effect, with strict inputs, bounded outputs, replay receipts, and failure tests.

For
Python developers adding tools to assistants and agents
Bring
Read Python functions and dictionaries; Run a local Python command; Understand JSON objects.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

22 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Turn synthetic spans into a reproducible triage report, separate transport success from answer quality, and design telemetry that supports incident decisions without copying every prompt.

For
Developers and operators maintaining AI-powered applications
Bring
Read basic JSON and Python; Understand a request and response; Run Python unittest.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Construct a small policy-grounded evaluation dataset with clear provenance, boundary cases, group-preserving splits and reviewable labels, without pretending synthetic examples represent real traffic.

For
Developers and evaluation leads building early AI test suites
Bring
Understand JSON arrays and objects; Read Python conditionals; Know the difference between development and holdout data.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

22 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build a transparent scorecard from synthetic paired runs, keep critical failures visible, report slice performance and inspect cost-quality-latency tradeoffs without hiding them in one rank.

For
AI product engineers and evaluation owners choosing release candidates
Bring
Read JSON and simple Python; Calculate a mean and a percentage; Understand a test case and expected outcome.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Python and data workflows

Automate CSV Reporting with Python

Build a standard-library CSV reporting workflow that validates records, preserves rejected rows and produces reproducible branch summaries.

For
Python beginners who already use spreadsheets and need dependable recurring reports.
Bring
Basic Python functions and dictionaries; Running a terminal command; Understanding rows and columns.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Python and data workflows

Reconcile Business Data with SQL

Build an inspectable SQLite reconciliation that aggregates receipts at invoice grain and separates mismatches, unpaid invoices and orphan receipts.

For
Analysts who can read basic SQL and need to compare two business extracts.
Bring
Basic SELECT and GROUP BY; Python dictionaries and lists; Understanding primary keys.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

22 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build a deterministic batch-ingestion planner that validates JSON Lines files, rejects ambiguous identities and distinguishes retries from changed content.

For
Python developers moving from one-off file imports to repeatable batch workflows.
Bring
Python functions, exceptions and sets; Basic JSON; Running local unittest tests.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

20 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Implement an inspectable shipment-quality engine that separates field validity, cross-field consistency, reference checks and overdue warnings.

For
Analysts and Python developers who need quality checks that help people repair source data.
Bring
Basic Python functions and dictionaries; JSON arrays and objects; Calendar date basics.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Python and data workflows

Debug SQL Joins and Table Grain

Build a SQLite diagnostic that contrasts raw ticket/tag/comment joins with a grain-preserving result and explains duplicate links and missing partners.

For
SQL analysts whose totals change unexpectedly after adding joins.
Bring
SELECT, JOIN and GROUP BY; Primary and foreign key concepts; Basic Python to run the companion.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build a zoneinfo session normalizer that handles ambiguous local times, rejects nonexistent times and separates elapsed duration from wall-clock differences.

For
Python developers and analysts handling appointments or reports across time zones.
Bring
Python datetime basics; JSON records and exceptions; Understanding calendar dates and clock times.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

20 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Implement last-value, seasonal-naive and moving-mean forecasts on a daily series, then compare them using the same one-step rolling-origin evaluation.

For
Analysts who want a trustworthy baseline before trying more complex forecasting models.
Bring
Basic Python lists and functions; Arithmetic mean and absolute difference; Calendar dates and ordered observations.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Python and data workflows

Design and Test API Data Contracts

Build an offline contract audit for fictional request and response envelopes, then inspect compatibility risks that a version label cannot resolve.

For
Python developers, data integrators and analysts working with API payloads
Bring
Basic Python and familiarity with JSON objects; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build a defensible feedback brief with evidence IDs, selection limits, competing explanations and a repeatable Python audit.

For
Customer experience analysts, product managers and service owners
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Business and customer analytics

Design and Test a Customer Feedback Taxonomy

Develop a compact feedback codebook, adjudicate a reference set and audit coverage, precision and recall without hiding ambiguous records.

For
Customer insight teams, support analysts and feedback operations leads
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

22 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Business and customer analytics

Measure Retention with Cohort Analysis

Build calendar-month activity cohorts from event records, distinguish mature zeroes from unavailable cells and write a bounded retention readout.

For
Product analysts, customer success teams and practical data learners
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Business and customer analytics

Build a Contact Center Capacity Model

Create a transparent workload model, stress its demand and availability assumptions and distinguish planning headcount from queueing and scheduling guarantees.

For
Support operations analysts, team leads and workforce planning beginners
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Business and customer analytics

Write Experiment Readouts with Clear Limits

Write a practical two-arm experiment readout with clear units, absolute and relative effects, Wilson arm intervals and explicitly limited difference intervals.

For
Product analysts, experimentation beginners and business decision owners
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

20 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Build an operational automation estimate that separates task eligibility, adoption, review, rework and ongoing maintenance, then stress the assumptions.

For
Operations managers, automation builders and business analysts
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Create a compact handoff system with owners, backups, next actions, dependencies and dated review, supported by a structural Python validator.

For
Operations leads, service owners and teams preparing role or shift transitions
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

21 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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Business and customer analytics

Design Dashboards Around Real Decisions

Design a compact operational dashboard around documented decisions, denominator and freshness guards, and an inspectable rule-evaluation tool.

For
Business analysts, dashboard designers and operational service owners
Bring
Basic spreadsheet arithmetic and familiarity with the topic; Python 3.10+ and a terminal for the optional companion project.

AI-assisted · Independent human review pending

23 pages · 9 chapters · PDF + EPUB

$2.99USD · one-time

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