Python Data Analysis for Absolute Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide to Learning Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib with Real-World Projects and No Prior Coding Experience Required

by Donald Ward

132 pages, Hardcover

Published October 7, 2025

About the author

Donald Ward sold his first story to CBC when he was nineteen-years-old and has written professionally for the last forty years. His fiction is thoughtful and humourous and always accessible, no matter how fantastic his grounding premise may be. In 2004 his short fiction collection Nobody Goes to Earth Any More, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, and his story Badger won the 2009 CBC Literary Award. Ward is also an editor and book designer and his books have been awarded distinction at the annual Saskatchewan Book Awards. He has written, co-written, ghost-written, edited, and/or designed more than 120 volumes of non-fiction and fiction. Ward lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.