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The textbook Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science
https://github.com/data-8/textbook

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The textbook Computational and Inferential Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/data-8/textbook
• Owner: data-8
• License: other
• Created: 2016-01-07T09:28:42.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2026-01-13T19:59:18.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-01-13T21:39:40.895Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Jupyter Notebook
• Homepage: http://www.inferentialthinking.com
• Size: 169 MB
• Stars: 896
• Watchers: 64
• Forks: 311
• Open Issues: 14
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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README

          
# Computational and Inferential Thinking

[![Jupyter Book (via myst) GitHub Pages Deploy](https://github.com/data-8/textbook/actions/workflows/deploy-jb2.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/data-8/textbook/actions/workflows/deploy-jb2.yml) [![Accessibility Checks](https://github.com/data-8/textbook/actions/workflows/a11y.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/data-8/textbook/actions/workflows/a11y.yml)

This repository holds the Jupyter Book source for Computational and Inferential

Thinking: The Foundations of Data Science.

## To make a change to the book and update `inferentialthinking.com`

1. Get your copy of this repository:

   ```

   git clone https://github.com/data-8/textbook

   ```

2. Change the file you wish and commit it to the repository.

3. Push your change back to the `data-8/textbook` repository (ideally via a pull request).

4. That's it a GitHub Action will build the book and deploy it to [inferentialthinking.com](https://inferentialthinking.com)

## How this repository is deployed to `inferentialthinking.com`

* The textbook at `inferentialthinking.com` is actually being served from this repository:

  https://github.com/inferentialthinking/inferentialthinking.github.io

  **You should not ever directly edit the inferentialthinking.github.io repository**

* When you make a change to this repository and push it to the `data-8/textbook` `main`

  branch, the book's HTML will automatically be pushed to https://github.com/inferentialthinking/inferentialthinking.github.io.

* This process is handled by [this GitHub Action](.github/workflows/deploy.yml)

## Build and preview the text locally

To build locally, `pip install -r requirements.txt` and then `jupyter-book build .`

**Follow the build instructions on the Jupyter Book guide**. The guide has

information for how to use the Jupyter Book CLI to build this book. You can find

the [Jupyter Book build instructions here](https://jupyterbook.org/stable/get-started/build-websites/).