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Re:Learn the basics of data science with these books by dasboth on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @04:23AM (#13012843)
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... :)

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Re:Learn the basics of data science with these books by nthot on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @09:33AM (#13014335)
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].

[1] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

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