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Foundations of Data Science [pdf]

by kercker on 5/23/18, 7:11 AM with 21 comments

  • by nevi-me on 5/23/18, 5:13 PM

    I'm an accountant but work consulting as a data/software "engineer" (or in those roles). For a while I got excited by all the "data science" books, until I admitted to myself 2 years ago that without the Math & Stats background, I'm wasting my time.

    I went back to varsity (part time) this year, studying Applied Maths and Stats. Even with the basics that I now know, going through this book; I can feel that a glass ceiling is broken.

    I'm going to print it bit by bit, and study its contents (after my exams). Thanks!

  • by danso on 5/23/18, 2:51 PM

    Not to be confused with, "The Foundations of Data Science", a free textbook used/created for UC Berkeley's data science course:

    https://www.inferentialthinking.com/

  • by cschmidt on 5/23/18, 2:07 PM

  • by chalmette on 5/23/18, 7:29 PM

    Looks like this book heavily intersects with "Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis" by Mitzenmacher/Upfal [0].

    [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=E9UlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source...

  • by bhuthesh_r on 5/23/18, 5:52 PM

    Ravindran Kannan, one of the authors taught a course of the same name at CSA, IISc. The video lectures of the course are available here: http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~chiru/datascience/iisclectur...

  • by hellofunk on 5/23/18, 9:16 PM

    I always thought linear regression was a “foundation” of this field, but there is no discussion of a technique by this name in this book. Is there another name it goes by?

  • by mlevental on 5/23/18, 3:04 PM

    of all of the modern grad books this one has always struck me as the most mathematically rigorous. an heir to trevor's esl.

  • by hellofunk on 5/23/18, 10:29 PM

    Quite dense! Just reading the first paragraph assumes good background knowledge. Wish I could grasp this stuff!

  • by vazamb on 5/24/18, 6:13 PM

    Not to be confused with an 'Introduction to data science' book

  • by anotheryou on 5/23/18, 6:57 PM

    is there an epub?

  • by ybrah on 5/23/18, 2:51 PM