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

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