Tag: free
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Data Mining and Analysis Textbook (Free Download)
Mohammed J. Zaki, Computer Science Professor at RPI, and Wagner Meira Jr., Computer Science Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, have written the textbook Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms. The book is currently available as a PDF download. Based upon the chapters, the book looks very good. It contains large sections…
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Free Big Data Analytics For Dummies eBook
Alteryx is offering the book, Big Data Analytics For Dummies, for free. If you are new to the term big data, this book provides a brief (about 40 pages) overview of the topic and what big data should be able to do for your company. You have to register, but it is worth it for…
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Free Textbook and Toolkit: Natural Language Processing with Python
This is an online, HTML version of the book, Natural Language Processing with Python. The book is a companion for NLTK which is a free, open source toolkit, written in python, for Natural Language Processing (NLP).
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Coursera Launches Data Analysis Classes
In case you missed the announcement yesterday, Coursera added 12 new universities and over 100 new courses. The exciting part for people learning data science is a new category of courses: Statistics, Data Analysis, and Scientific Computing. None of the courses have started yet. Most are scheduled for this fall or early 2013. The courses…
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New Data Science Journal
Springer has just release a new data science journal named EPJ Data Science. The journal is open access which means that articles are freely available online. That catch is that people whom submit articles must pay a fee for publication. Sometimes the fee will be covered by the author’s university or company. Anyhow, if you…
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Free Online Strata Conference
May Strata 2012 will occur online this year. The cost is zero, and the event is tomorrow (May 16, 2012). The only catch is that you must register first. The entire conference is scheduled to take place in the morning, so the format looks quick. Judging from other Strata videos I have seen, I would…
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Open Source Online Statistics Book (OpenIntro)
OpenIntro is an organisation that was started to create a free and open source introductory statistics textbook. The book is available as a free PDF download, or it can be purchased in paperback from Amazon for less than $10. If you want to learn statistics or need a little refresher, check it out.
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List of Free Courses Online
Having trouble keeping track of what schools offer what courses for free online? Problem solved! Class Central maintains a updated list of courses from Coursera(Stanford), Udacity, MITx, and others as they become available. Not all of the courses are related to data science, but I still thought it was valuable to share the link. Check…
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More Free Courses from Stanford
Also this spring, Stanford will be offering two more courses that might benefit a person learning data science. Probabilistic Graphical Models – combining ideas from statistics, probability, and computer science to solve really hard problems…sounds neat Natural Language Processing (NLP) – performing algorithms on human language and strings If you feel these 2 classes might…