Preface Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Berea College for the support for student internships and for the Berea College student interns, Logan Anglin, Elijah Babayemi, Colin Flaherty, Austin Gatewood, Tristan Razote, and Eun Sung Wang, who served as the first editors of this work and who helped to make this version more interactive. You can see their contibutions as well as those of others at github.com/pearcej/intro2datasci/forks.
I would like to thank Dr. Rob Beezer for the creation of PreTeXt which is the authoring platform of this text and for his amazing level of responsiveness in the PreTeXt support channel. Additionally, I am very grateful to Dr. Oscar Levin both for his responsiveness in the Runestone Discord channels and for work in the creation of PreText converter for Pandoc, which made adaption much less time consuming.
Dr. Brad Miller deserves a wholehearted thanks for his work in creating Runestone Academy where this book is hosted, and for his collaborative work with the PreTeXt authoring group.
Finally, I would like to thank my husband, Bob Fairchild, for his patience and for being my best friend.
