About

About the Series

The Transpose series exists because the gap between software engineering and data science is narrower than most people think — but the remaining distance is full of subtle traps.

Software engineers who move into data science don’t need to learn what a function is. They need to learn why the same input can produce different outputs, and why that’s not a bug. Data scientists who move into engineering don’t need to learn what a variable is. They need to learn why a working notebook isn’t the same as a working system.

These books bridge that gap by starting from the reader’s existing expertise and building outwards. No redundant foundations, no missing context.

About the Author

Matthew Gibbons is a software engineer who made the transition into data science and wrote about it along the way. The Transpose series grew from the notes, analogies, and hard-won insights accumulated during that crossing.

Colophon

The Transpose books are built with Quarto and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. All source code is available on GitHub. The text is set in Inter for body copy, Literata for headings, and JetBrains Mono for code.

All visualisations use the Okabe-Ito colour palette, designed to be distinguishable by readers with colour vision deficiencies.