作者是Sebastian Raschka，密歇根州立大学的博士生，他在计算生物学领域提出了几种新的计算方法，还被科技博客Analytics Vidhya评为GitHub上最具影响力的数据科学家。他有一整年都使用Python进行编程的经验，同时还多次参加数据科学应用与机器学习领域的研讨会。在数据科学、机器学习以及Python等领域他拥有丰富的演讲和写作经验，本书可使得不具备机器学习背景的人设计出由数据驱动的解决方案。(The author, Sebastian Raschka, a PhD student at Michigan State University, has come up with several new computational methods in computational biology and has been named the most influential data scientist on GitHub by Analytics Vidhya, a technology blog. He has a year of programming experience using Python, and has attended many seminars in data science applications and machine learning. He has extensive lecture and writing experience in data science, machine learning, and Python, and this book enables people who do not have a machine learning background to design data-driven solutions.)