Data Science Resources
Here are a few of my favorite resources for learning data science and keeping up with the latest news:
Blogs
- FiveThirtyEight: Data-related journalism
- R-bloggers: R news and tutorials contributed by hundreds of bloggers
- Yhat Blog: Lots of beginner-friendly content, usually in Python or R
- Simply Statistics: From the Biostatistics professors that run Coursera's Data Science Specialization
- Data Science 101: Lots of short, timely posts
Weekly Newsletters
- Data Elixir: Carefully curated data science news and resources
- O'Reilly Data Newsletter: More business-focused
- Python Weekly: Python news and resources
Online Data Science Courses
- Courera's Data Science Specialization: 9-course series (plus a Capstone project), taught in R
- Springboard's Introduction to Data Science: 3-month program (including mentorship), taught in R
- Stanford's Statistical Learning: 10-week course focused on machine learning, taught in R
- Caltech's Learning from Data: focused on machine learning, not language-specific
- Coursera's Machine Learning: Andrew Ng's course, taught in MATLAB/Octave
Python Courses
- Codecademy's Python 3 course: Good beginner material, includes tons of in-browser exercises
- DataQuest: Similar interface to Codecademy, but focused on teaching Python in the context of data science
- Google's Python Class: Slightly more advanced, includes hours of useful lecture videos and downloadable exercises (with solutions)
- Python for Everybody: Designed for people without any programming experience
Books
- An Introduction to Statistical Learning (free PDF): Excellent introduction to machine learning that includes 15 hours of related videos (buy on Amazon)
- Elements of Statistical Learning (free PDF): A more mathematically rigorous introduction to machine learning (buy on Amazon)
- OpenIntro Statistics (free PDF): Open source introductory textbook (buy on Amazon)
- Python for Everybody (free PDF): Beginner-oriented Python book (buy on Amazon)
- Python for Data Analysis: Great introduction to Pandas, NumPy, and IPython (buy on Amazon)
Other
Many more resources are listed here!