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