Self-publishing to the rescue
The new Coursera course by Princeton Professor Mung Chiang was so popular that Amazon and the publisher ran out of copies of the textbook before the course even started (see “new website features” announcement; requires login). I experienced a stockout of my own textbook (“Data Mining for Business Intelligence”) a couple of years ago, which caused grief and slight panic to both students and instructors. With stockouts in mind, and recognizing the difficulty of obtaining textbooks outside of North America (unavailable, too expensive, or long/costly shipping), I decided to take things into my own hands and self-publish a “Practical Analytics” series of … Continue reading Self-publishing to the rescue