Last year I acted as one of the reviewers on a book from Packt Publishing: The NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide (ISBN 13 : 978-1-84951-530-6) about the numerical programming library in the Python programming language. I was "blinded" by the publisher, so I did not know that the author was Ivan Idris before the book came out. For my reviewing effort I got a physical copy of the book, an electronic copy of another book and some new knowledge of certain aspects of the NumPy.
One of the things that I did not know before I came across it while reviewing the book was the date formatter in the plotting library (matplotlib) and the ability to download stock quotes via a single function in the NumPy library (there is an example starting on page 171 in the book). There is a 'candlestick' plot function that goes well with the return value of the quotes download function. The plot shows an example of the use of date formatting with stock quotes downloaded from Yahoo! via NumPy together with sentiment analysis of Wikipedia revisions of the Pfizer company.