100+ Free Data Science Books
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4.2 (348 Ratings)Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, 1st Edition
Comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. Number one in its field, this textbook is ideal for one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence.
3.5 (2 Ratings)The LION Way: Machine Learning plus Intelligent Optimization
Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION) is the combination of learning from data and optimization applied to solve complex and dynamic problems. Learn about increasing the automation level and connecting data directly to decisions and actions.
3.5 (116 Ratings)Disruptive Possibilities: How Big Data Changes Everything
This book provides an historically-informed overview through a wide range of topics, from the evolution of commodity supercomputing and the simplicity of big data technology, to the ways conventional clouds differ from Hadoop analytics clouds.
4.2 (120 Ratings)Computer Vision
Challenging real-world applications where vision is being successfully used, both for specialized applications such as medical imaging, and for fun, consumer-level tasks such as image editing and stitching, which you can use on you own personal media
4.1 (478 Ratings)Natural Language Processing with Python
This book offers a highly accessible introduction to natural language processing, the field that supports a variety of language technologies, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation.
4.0 (48 Ratings)Programming Computer Vision with Python
If you want a basic understanding of computer vision’s underlying theory and algorithms, this hands-on introduction is the ideal place to start. You’ll learn techniques for object recognition, 3D reconstruction, stereo imaging, augmented reality, etc
3.6 (174 Ratings)The Elements of Data Analytic Style
Data analysis is at least as much art as it is science. This book is focused on the details of data analysis that sometimes fall through the cracks in traditional statistics classes and textbooks.
4.0 (5 Ratings)Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning
This book gives a very quick but still thorough introduction to reinforcement learning, and includes algorithms for quite a few methods. This is everything a graduate student could ask for in a text.
A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining
A guide to practical data mining, collective intelligence, and building recommendation systems by Ron Zacharski. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
4.1 (171 Ratings)Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning
For final-year undergraduates and master's students with limited background in linear algebra and calculus. Comprehensive and coherent, it develops everything from basic reasoning to advanced techniques within the framework of graphical models.
4.3 (15 Ratings)Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms
The main parts of the book include exploratory data analysis, pattern mining, clustering, and classification. The book lays the basic foundations of these tasks, and also covers many more cutting-edge data mining topics.
3.9 (159 Ratings)Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
Offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations.
4.1 (37 Ratings)Data Mining with Rattle and R
This book aims to get you into data mining quickly. Load some data (e.g., from a database) into the Rattle toolkit and within minutes you will have the data visualised and some models built.
Deep Learning
The Deep Learning textbook is a resource intended to help students and practitioners enter the field of machine learning in general and deep learning in particular.
4.2 (88 Ratings)Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Gaussian processes, which provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines.
4.5 (427 Ratings)Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
"Essential reading for students of electrical engineering and computer science; also a great heads-up for mathematics students concerning the subtlety of many commonsense questions." Choice
2.9 (1 Ratings)Machine Learning, Neural and Statistical Classification
4.4 (25 Ratings)Mining of Massive Datasets
Essential reading for students and practitioners, this book focuses on practical algorithms used to solve key problems in data mining, with exercises suitable for students from the advanced undergraduate level and beyond.
Modeling With Data
Modeling with Data offers a useful blend of data-driven statistical methods and nuts-and-bolts guidance on implementing those methods. --Pat Hall, founder of Translation Creation
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Neural networks and deep learning currently provide the best solutions to many problems in image recognition, speech recognition, and natural language processing. This book will teach you concepts behind neural networks and deep learning.
4.0 (157 Ratings)Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers
illuminates Bayesian inference through probabilistic programming with the powerful PyMC language and the closely related Python tools NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib. Using this approach, you can reach effective solutions in small increments.
Real-World Active Learning
Applications and Strategies for Human-in-the-loop Machine Learning.
4.5 (493 Ratings)Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
A clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Their discussion ranges from the history of the field's intellectual foundations to the most recent developments and applications.
4.1 (1 Ratings)Social Media Mining An Introduction
Suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses as well as professional short courses, the text contains exercises of different degrees of difficulty that improve understanding and help apply concepts in social media mining
Theory and Applications for Advanced Text Mining
This book is composed of 9 chapters introducing advanced text mining techniques. They are various techniques from relation extraction to under or less resourced language.
4.2 (90 Ratings)Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
The aim of this textbook is to introduce machine learning, and the algorithmic paradigms it offers, in a principled way.
3.6 (2 Ratings)An Introduction to Data Science
This book was developed for the Certificate of Data Science pro- gram at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies.
3.8 (234 Ratings)Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product
Learn how to use a problem's "weight" against itself. Learn more about the problems before starting on the solutions—and use the findings to solve them, or determine whether the problems are worth solving at all.
School of Data Handbook
The School of Data Handbook is a companion text to the School of Data. Its function is something like a traditional textbook – it will provide the detail and background theory to support the School of Data courses and challenges.
3.7 (15 Ratings)The Art of Data Science
This book describes the process of analyzing data. The authors have extensive experience both managing data analysts and conducting their own data analyses, and this book is a distillation of their experience...
3.8 (9 Ratings)D3 Tips and Tricks
D3 Tips and Tricks is a book written to help those who may be unfamiliar with JavaScript or web page creation get started turning information into visualization.
4.1 (427 Ratings)Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web—even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It’s easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction.
4.1 (30 Ratings)Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce
MapReduce [45] is a programming model for expressing distributed computations on massive amounts of data and an execution framework for large-scale data processing on clusters of commodity servers. It was originally developed by Google...
Hadoop Illuminated
'Hadoop illuminated' is the open source book about Apache Hadoop™. It aims to make Hadoop knowledge accessible to a wider audience, not just to the highly technical.
Hadoop Tutorial as a PDF
Intro to Hadoop - An open-source framework for storing and processing big data in a distributed environment across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines.
3.5 (55 Ratings)Programming Pig
This guide is an ideal learning tool and reference for Apache Pig, the open source engine for executing parallel data flows on Hadoop.
3.6 (327 Ratings)Building Data Science Teams
In this in-depth report, data scientist DJ Patil explains the skills,perspectives, tools and processes that position data science teams for success.
3.8 (382 Ratings)Data Driven: Creating a Data Culture
In this O’Reilly report, DJ Patil and Hilary Mason outline the steps you need to take if your company is to be truly data-driven—including the questions you should ask and the methods you should adopt.
4.0 (39 Ratings)The Data Science Handbook
The Data Science Handbook is a compilation of in-depth interviews with 25 remarkable data scientists, where they share their insights, stories, and advice.
4.1 (23 Ratings)A Byte of Python
‘A Byte of Python’ is a free book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.
4.5 (232 Ratings)Advanced R
Useful tools and techniques for attacking many types of R programming problems, helping you avoid mistakes and dead ends. With ten+ years of experience programming in R, the author illustrates the elegance, beauty, and flexibility at the heart of R.
A Little Book of R for Time Series
This is a simple introduction to time series analysis using the R statistics software.
4.3 (2329 Ratings)Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
Practical programming for total beginners. In Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand-no prior programming experience required.
3.9 (263 Ratings)Dive Into Python 3
This is a hands-on guide to Python 3 and its differences from Python 2. Each chapter starts with a real, complete code sample, picks it apart and explains the pieces, and then puts it all back together in a summary at the end.
4.3 (40 Ratings)Ecological Models and Data in R
The first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know to analyze their own data using the R language.
4.1 (140 Ratings)Invent with Python
"Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" teaches you computer programming in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game and teaches the programming concepts from these examples.
Learning Statistics with R
I (Dani) started teaching the introductory statistics class for psychology students offered at the University of Adelaide, using the R statistical package as the primary tool. These are my own notes for the class which were trans-coded to book form.
4.1 (14 Ratings)Learning with Python 3
Introduction to computer science using the Python programming language. It covers the basics of computer programming in the first part while later chapters cover basic algorithms and data structures.
4.0 (9 Ratings)Learn Python, Break Python
This is a hands-on introduction to the Python programming language, written for people who have no experience with programming whatsoever. After all, everybody has to start somewhere.
3.9 (146 Ratings)Learn Python the Hard Way
This is a free sample of Learn Python 2 The Hard Way with 8 exercises and Appendix A available for you to review.
Practical Regression and Anova using R
This book is NOT introductory. The emphasis of this text is on the practice of regression and analysis of variance. The objective is to learn what methods are available and more importantly, when they should be applied.
4.3 (523 Ratings)Python for Everybody
This book is designed to introduce students to programming and computational thinking through the lens of exploring data. You can think of Python as your tool to solve problems that are far beyond the capability of a spreadsheet.
Python for You and Me
This is a simple book to learn the Python programming language, it is for the programmers who are new to Python.
Python Practice Book
This book is prepared from the training notes of Anand Chitipothu.
Python Programming
This book describes Python, an open-source general-purpose interpreted programming language available for a broad range of operating systems. This book describes primarily version 2, but does at times reference changes in version 3.
R Programming
The aim of this Wikibook is to be the place where anyone can share his or her knowledge and tricks on R. It is supposed to be organized by task but not by discipline. We try to make a cross-disciplinary book, i.e. a book that can be used by all.
R Programming for Data Science
This book is about the fundamentals of R programming. You will get started with the basics of the language, learn how to manipulate datasets, how to write functions, and how to debug and optimize code.
Spatial Epidemiology Notes: Applications and Vignettes in R
My intent is to present a relatively brief, non-jargony overview of how practicing epidemiologists can apply some of the extremely powerful spatial analytic tools that are easily available to them.
4.0 (7 Ratings)The R Inferno
An essential guide to the trouble spots and oddities of R. In spite of the quirks exposed here, R is the best computing environment for most data analysis tasks.
4.1 (83 Ratings)Think Python 2nd Edition
This hands-on guide takes you through Python a step at a time, beginning with basic programming concepts before moving on to functions, recursion, data structures, and object-oriented design. Updated to Python 3.
3.8 (2 Ratings)A First Course in Linear Algebra
This is an introduction to the basic concepts of linear algebra, along with an introduction to the techniques of formal mathematics. It has numerous worked examples, exercises and complete proofs, ideal for independent study.
4.2 (24 Ratings)Elementary Applied Topology
This text gives a brisk and engaging introduction to the mathematics behind the recently established field of Applied Topology.
4.3 (6 Ratings)Elementary Differential Equations
This text has been written in clear and accurate language that students can read and comprehend. The author has minimized the number of explicitly state theorems and definitions, in favor of dealing with concepts in a more conversational manner.
4.3 (13 Ratings)Introduction to Probability
This book is designed for an introductory probability course at the university level for sophomores, juniors, and seniors in mathematics, physical and social sciences, engineering, and computer science.
3.5 (1 Ratings)Linear Algebra, Theory And Applications
This book gives a self- contained treatment of linear algebra with many of its most important applications. It is very unusual if not unique in being an elementary book which does not neglect arbitrary fields of scalars and the proofs of the theorems
Probability and Statistics Cookbook
The probability and statistics cookbook is a succinct representation of various topics in probability theory and statistics. It provides a comprehensive mathematical reference reduced to its essence, rather than aiming for elaborate explanations.
3.6 (22 Ratings)Graph Databases
Get started with O'Reilly's Graph Databases and discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data.
SQL Tutorial as a PDF
This tutorial will give you a quick start to SQL. It covers most of the topics required for a basic understanding of SQL and to get a feel of how it works.
The Little MongoDB Book
MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database, easily scalable and high performance. It retains some similarities with relational databases which, in my opinion, makes it a great choice for anyone who is approaching the NoSQL world.
2.9 (13 Ratings)A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments
Suitable for either a service course for non-statistics graduate students or for statistics majors. Unlike most texts for the one-term grad/upper level course on experimental design, this book offers a superb balance of both analysis and design.
4.6 (1944 Ratings)An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R
This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant applications. Topics include linear regression, classification, resampling methods, shrinkage approaches, tree-based methods, and much more.
3.6 (23 Ratings)Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents
This is a textbook aimed at junior to senior undergraduate students and first-year graduate students. It presents artificial intelligence (AI) using a coherent framework to study the design of intelligent computational agents.
3.8 (12 Ratings)Intro Stat with Randomization and Simulation
The foundations for inference are provided using randomization and simulation methods. Once a solid foundation is formed, a transition is made to traditional approaches, where the normal and t distributions are used for hypothesis testing and...
4.0 (33 Ratings)OpenIntro Statistics
Probability is optional, inference is key, and we feature real data whenever possible. Files for the entire book are freely available at openintro.org.
4.4 (296 Ratings)The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
This book describes the important ideas in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics.
3.9 (51 Ratings)Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple
Think Bayes is an introduction to Bayesian statistics using computational methods. The premise of this book, and the other books in the Think X series, is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other topics.
3.6 (354 Ratings)Think Stats: Exploratory Data Analysis in Python
This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python.
4.3 (1694 Ratings)Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
This is the first textbook on pattern recognition to present the Bayesian viewpoint. The book presents approximate inference algorithms that permit fast approximate answers in situations where exact answers are not feasible.