Day: June 20, 2013

  • Resources to learn Big Data Analytics

    Resources to learn Big Data Analytics

    A list of books and resources that are available online for learning Data Science:

    Industry

    • Mc Kinsey Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity Website
    • O’Reilly Big Data Now: 2012 Edition. Website
    • IBM Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data. Website
    • Pentaho Real-Time Big Data Analytics: Emerging Architecture. Website

    Academia

    • The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman. Website
    • Data stream Mining: A practical approach. Website, Download
    • Introduction to Information Retrieval: Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze. Website
    • Mining Massive Data Sets: Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, and Jure Leskovec. Website

     

    Online Courses (suggested by Tim Osterbuhr)

    • Free Berkeley course on big data analysis using the Twitter API. Website
    • Extensive free data science course (good step-by-step approach). Website
    • Coursera course to get a good foundation of algorithms. Website