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Re:Free Data Science Books by snoman on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:20AM (#10191225)
Similarly, An Introduction to Statistical Learning With Applications in R is like a practical version of (or companion to) Elements. I very much enjoyed it.
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Re:Free Data Science Books by craigching on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:29AM (#10191282)
And the Stanford version of the same class linked above for ISLR is, in my opinion, better:

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesandScience/S...

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Re:Free Data Science Books by weavie on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:41AM (#10191356)
Yes good point, my bad - I meant to link to "An Introduction" rather than "Elements". Elements is not a good starting point - your head will explode.
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