Data science is an inter-disciplinary field which contains methods and techniques from fields like statistics, machine learning, Bayesian etc. They all aim to generate specific insights from the data. In this article, we are listing down some excellent data science books which cover the wide variety of topics under Data Science.
Foundations of Data Science
Authors: Blum, Hopcroft and Kannan
This data science book is a great blend of lectures in the modern theoretical course in data science.
UFLDL Tutorial
Contributors: Andrew Ng, Jiquan Ngiam, Chuan Yu Foo, Yifan Mai, Caroline Suen
This tutorial aims to get you familiar with the main ideas of Unsupervised Feature Learning and Deep Learning.
Python Data Science Handbook
Author: Jake VanderPlas
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The book introduces the core libraries essential for working with data in Python: particularly IPython, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, and related packages.
Hands-On Machine Learning and Big Data
Authors: Kareem Alkaseer
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This book is a great source of learning the concepts of Machine Learning and Big Data.
Think Stats
Author: Allen B Downey
Think Stats emphasizes simple techniques you can use to explore real data sets and answer interesting questions. This one of the most recommended books for data science.
Think Bayes
Author: Allen B Downey
Think Bayes is an introduction to Bayesian statistics using computational methods. This book uses Python code instead of math, and discrete approximations instead of continuous mathematics.
EE263: Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems
Author: Reza Nasiri Mahalati
This compilation by Professor Sanjay emphasizes on applied linear algebra and linear dynamical systems with applications to circuits, signal processing, communications, and control systems. Link to previous years’ course notes by professor Boyd can be found here.
Convex Optimization – Boyd and Vandenberghe
Author: Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject and shows in detail how such problems can be solved numerically with great efficiency.
Essentials of Metaheuristics
Author: Sean Luke
This is an open set of lecture notes on metaheuristics algorithms, intended for undergraduate students, practitioners, programmers, and other non-experts.
CIML
Author: Hal Daumé III
CIML is a set of introductory materials that covers most major aspects of modern machine learning (supervised learning, unsupervised learning, large margin methods, probabilistic modeling, learning theory, etc.).
These are some of the finest data science books that we recommend. Have something else in mind? Comment below with your list of some awesome data science books.
