Data Science Books

There are numerous ressorces for data science on the web. On this page I want to present my favourite books on various topics.

Literature

You can see my personal comments on each book by clicking on the image of the cover page. The link below the image leads directly to amazon.

Scientific Computing

: Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing

Data Mining

Machine Learning, pattern recognition, natural language processing

: Machine Learning

: Machine Learning for Hackers

: Natural Language Annotation for Machine Learning

: Natural Language Processing with Python

: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Social Media Mining

: Mining the Social Web

: 21 Recipes for Mining Twitter

: Social Media Mining with R

R

Die Open-Source Software R ist das Standardtool für Fragestellungen in Data Science. Die folgenden Bücher sind ein guter Einstieg:

: The Art of R Programming

: R in a Nutshell

: R Cookbook

: R Graphics Cookbook

: Parallel R

Python

Mit Python steht Data Scientists eine sehr leistungsstarke plattformunabhängige Programmiersprache zur Verfügung.

: Learning Python

: Think Stats

: High Performance Python

Hadoop und MapReduce

: MapReduce Design Patterns

: Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

IT Basics

: Structured Computer Organization

: Modern Operating Systems