acknowledgments
A book takes far more people than the two names on its cover, and we are grateful to all of them.
At Manning, we thank Andy Waldron, the acquisitions editor who commissioned the book, and the team who carried it through production: our development editor, Ian Hough; head of production, Aleksandar Dragosavljevic; production editor, Andy Marinkovich; copyeditor, Kari Lucke; proofreader, Katie Tennant, typesetter, Tamara Švelić Sabljić, and graphics supervisor, Azra Dedic. We are also grateful to Maris Sekar, our technical editor, for the careful technical review and whose feedback helped make the book sharper and more useful. Maris is a seasoned engineer and principal data scientist with expertise in AI, having led innovative initiatives for top organizations like Equite Association, PwC, Shell Canada, and TC Energy. His passion for data science has earned him prestigious awards and led to significant contributions through published papers, articles, and a recent book on applied machine learning.