Tag: book
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Free Bayesian Statistics Textbook
Think Bayes by Allen B. Downey is another free book available from Green Tree Press. Allen B. Downey is a computer science professor at Olin College. The book is currently available in PDF or HTML. The book is not yet complete, so it may contain some errors.
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Free Open-Source Statistics Cookbook
Matthias Vallentin, a computer science PhD student at UC Berkeley, has published a Probability and Statistics Cookbook. The book can be freely downloaded in PDF format via the website. Also, the latex source is available on Github. Matthias states that others are free to fork the source and make changes. The book is not a…
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Free Textbook: Mining of Massive Datasets
A few professors from Stanford University have released version 1.1 of their textbook, Mining of Massive Datasets. The book has been created from materials used for a couple of Stanford computer science classes including large-scale data-mining and web mining. The book looks excellent and really focuses on the analysis of data at a large scale.…
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New Data Science eBook – Free and Open-Source
Jeffrey M. Stanton, member of Syracuse University’s iSchool, just released an open-source ebook about data science. Obviously this book is intended to be used in the curriculum for the new Data Science Certificate Program. In particular, it will be used for two courses on analytics and visualization. The book is available in the iTunes store…
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Think Stats – An Online Statistics Book For Programmers
Previously I mentioned that online statistics learning resources are not abundant. Well, here is a new online book for learning statistics. It is geared towards programmers, and it looks to be a great fit for people wanting to learn data science. Here is a small excerpt from the Preface: It emphasizes the use of statistics…