JavaScript for Data Science
Version 4.0 / January 2020 Maya Greg All royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to R-Ladies, a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
Introduction
versus Data Science” would be a better title for this book. While that one word sums up how many people view the language, we hope we can convince you that modern JavaScript is usable as well as useful. Scientists and engineers are who we were thinking of when we wrote this book but we hope that these lessons will also help librarians, digital humanists, and everyone else who uses computing in their research.
Advocates of open source inclusiveness felt sidelined this March when the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reelected Richard Stallman to its board of directors. And this week, the FSF doubled down on this controversial decision in a statement on the election of Stallman.
This move echoes a lot of the issues that the open source community continues to reckon with, including a toxic environment toward women and an overall lack of transparency.
In this piece, we chronicle the response over the last three weeks of the tech community to this decision and talk about the very large steps the open source world still has to take to improve its governance, inclusion and openness.