http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/12/30/book-review-book-7-think-stats.aspxThis is a continuation of the books I challenged myself to read to help my career - one a month, for year. You can read my first book review here . The book I chose for December 2011 was: Think Stats, by Allen B. Downey .&#160; Why I chose this Book:en-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/12/30/book-review-book-7-think-stats.aspx#10281051Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:40:27 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10281051RK<p>&quot;Python certainly is a Data Scientist’s tool, just normally not for statistics.&quot; </p> <p>Correction here -- It is definitely used for solving problems that are &nbsp;statistical in nature. For Big datasets, R is particularly painful to work with. It is just that statisticians tend to use R than Python.</p> <p>Thanks for the review ...</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10281051" width="1" height="1">