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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.No answers. Any recommendations on books or blogs to learn data science?I working through this book, which I do like:
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho...
I’m rewriting the examples in Swift to help me learn:
https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift
Something with a little more theory might be good. Lots of the questions seem to require more theoretical knowledge.
⬐ alexey-olxTry machine learning bookcamp: http://bit.ly/mlbookcamp Learning machine learning by doing projects⬐ alexanderchrI can really recommend Introduction to statistical learning by James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani if you are looking for something that covers the theory without going into too much detail.There is also Elements of statistical learning by the same authors if you are looking for something more rigorous. I haven’t read very much of it but it is supposed to very good too.
Data science seems like a gateway drug to doing more math.I’ve been working through Joel Grus’ Data Science from Scratch,
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho...
rewriting the Python examples in Swift:
With Data Science and Machine Learning, my interest in math has greatly increased too. There’s definitely more of a need.I’m working my way through this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho...
by rewriting the examples in Swift:
https://github.com/melling/data-science-from-scratch-swift
I do like the author’s idea of creating his Simple Statistics library:
https://macwright.org/2012/06/26/simple-statistics.html
You definitely learn much more by building something, even if it’s less than perfect.
A new edition of Grus comes out next week actually...https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho...
⬐ quantumOctopusUgh I just bought the old one a week ago.⬐ Anon84Nice! He mentioned he was working on it when I met him at Strata last year, but I didn't know it was coming out already.