Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations of Data Science

Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by adamnemecek on Saturday August 13, 2016 @10:40PM (#12284067)

Can someone recommend some books that would pair up nicely with this? Or like maybe the next two books to read after this.

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by randcraw on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:19PM (#12287602)

"Data Smart" by Foreman

"Intro to Statistical Learning" by James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani

"Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani

The first emphasizes the application of basic concepts to the practice of data science, mostly using english and excel. The second is more mathematical yet quite applied, again focusing on DS tasks, but using R. The third is more mathematical yet, yet very much in the same model as the second. The second and third are free ebooks.

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by j7ake on Sunday August 14, 2016 @02:13AM (#12284473)

David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

Kevin Murphy: Machine Learning: a probabilistic perspective.

Christopher Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Macine Learning

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by dragandj on Sunday August 14, 2016 @03:01AM (#12284573)

These three are all excellent, but I'm not sure they pair well with the OP's book, which is written purely from the frequentist perspective. The books practically speak different language.

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by sn9 on Monday August 15, 2016 @08:43PM (#12294711)

Allen Downey offers many books for free [0] including a few on statistics and data science.

[0] http://greenteapress.com/wp/

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by adamnemecek on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:42PM (#12295393)

Thanks!

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by p1esk on Saturday August 13, 2016 @11:39PM (#12284174)

It depends on what you want to do.

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Re:Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations ... by adamnemecek on Saturday August 13, 2016 @11:52PM (#12284201)

Suggest some.

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