What open-source books (or other materials) provide a relatively thorough overview of data science?

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As a researcher and instructor, I'm looking for open-source books (or similar materials) that provide a relatively thorough overview of data science from an applied perspective. To be clear, I'm especially interested in a thorough overview that provides material suitable for a college-level course, not particular pieces or papers.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '14 at 00:53

One book that's freely available is "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman (published by Springer): see Tibshirani's website.

Another fantastic source, although it isn't a book, is Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera. This has a much more applied-focus than the above book, and Prof. Ng does a great job of explaining the thinking behind several different machine learning algorithms/situations.

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '14 at 06:06

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Data Science specialization from Johns Hopkins University at Coursera would be a great start. https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1

answered May 14 '14 at 06:06

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '14 at 07:55

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There is free ebook "Introduction to Data Science" based on r language

answered May 14 '14 at 07:55

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What open-source books (or other materials) provide a relatively thorough overview of data science?

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