Great Books About Data Analysis
These are the books that I use as a daily reference. They are all openly accessible.
R
- R for Data Science: An introduction to data analysis with R/Tidyverse by Hadley Wickham and Garret Grolemund.
- (2nd edition coming out soon).
- Introduction to Data Science - A detailed introduction to Data science by the biostatistician Rafael A. Irizarry.
- Advanced R - All you wish to know about programming in R by Hadley Wickham.
- Introduction to Statistical Learning - A detailed introductio to modern statistical methods, implemented in R by Gareth James, Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz, Jake VanderPlas, and Brock Craft, Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani.
- Text Mining in R Analyzing natural language and written text in R, by Julia Silge and David Robinson.
- Tidy Modeling with R An introduction to the tools that compose R’s machine learning framework, by Max Kuhn and Julia Silge.
- Analising Data Using Linear Models, for students in social, behavioural and management science, by Stéphanie M. van den Berg.
Python
- The Python Data Science Handbook, foundation of python for data science, by Jake VanderPlas.
- A Whirlwind Introduction to Python, a fast paced introduction to python, by Jake VanderPlas.
- Python for Data Analysis, the basics of data analysis in Python, with numpy and pandas, by Wes McKinney.
- Visualization Curriculum Data Visualization with Python, through Vega-Lite and Altair. Available also for javascript, by Jeffrey Heer, Dominik Moritz, Jake VanderPlas, and Brock Craft.
Git / Github
- Happy Git and Github for useR by Jenny Brian and Jim Hester.
- Pro Git Book, don’t worry, it starts from the basics; by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
- Github Skills A set of practical exercise to learn Github.
Project management
- Designing and Building Data Science Solutions how to set up a data science project, Jonathan Leslie and Neri Van Otten.
Dataviz Design
- Data Visualization - A practical introduction Visualize data in R, by Kieran Healy.
Dashboards
- Dashboards with R + Docker + Github Actions by Rami Krispin, head of data science at Apple.
More Books at Bookdown
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