Merge pull request #411 from UBC-DSCI/dev

Merging dev into Master

Author: ttimbers

acknowledgements.Rmd

@@ -11,10 +11,17 @@ and as such, contributed greatly to the broad structure and
 list of topics in this book. We would especially like to thank Matías
 Salibían-Barrera for his mentorship during the initial development and roll-out
 of both DSCI 100 and this book. His door was always open when
-we needed to chat about how to
-best introduce and teach data science to our first-year students.
+we needed to chat about how to best introduce and teach data science to our first-year students.
 
-We also owe a debt of gratitude to all of the students of DSCI 100 over the past
+We would also like to thank all those who contributed to the process of 
+publishing this book. In particular, we would like to thank all of our reviewers for their feedback and suggestions:
+Rohan Alexander, Isabella Ghement, Virgilio Gómez Rubio, Albert Kim, Adam Loy, Maria Prokofieva, Emily Riederer, and Greg Wilson.
+The book was improved substantially by their insights.
+We would like to give special thanks to Jim Zidek
+for his support and encouragement throughout the process, and to
+Roger Peng for graciously offering to write the foreword.
+
+Finally, we owe a debt of gratitude to all of the students of DSCI 100 over the past
 few years. They provided invaluable feedback on the book and worksheets; 
 they found bugs for us (and stood by very patiently in class while 
 we frantically fixed those bugs); and they brought a level of enthusiasm to the class