Re:Learn the basics of data science with these books
by dasboth on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:23AM
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I agree. I'd start with something like Joel Grus's Data Science From Scratch to get a handle on the basics in Python (or whatever the R equivalent is, I'm not familiar with R books).
I do however find myself more and more wishing I knew data science-specific Unix commands, and I think I know what book to get to solve that problem... :)
Re:Learn the basics of data science with these books
by nthot on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:33AM
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R for Data Science is a good R equivalent by Hadley Wickham. It also acts as a high level overview of the hadley/tidy verse (ggplot2, tidyr, dplyr, etc.). R4DS is free online [1].
Re:Learn the basics of data science with these books
by samkone on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @05:58AM
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True. But still I really love your book. Read it, and still reading to speed up many things. Are you planning another version?
Re:Learn the basics of data science with these books
by jeroenjanssens on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:33AM
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Thanks! I must admit that the thought has crossed my mind. However, these days all my time is spent consulting and giving training so I can't make any promises.
DSATCL discusses the ideas behind various cleaning and visualization approaches and several machine algorithms, but only briefly. My personal recommendation would be to first gain some experience with these topics using Python and/or R. If you're afterwards curious to find out how the Unix command line can help to do data science, well, then there's only one book I can think of! ;)