Research Guides: Data Science: Data Science Books

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Most of the books listed in this libguide are freely available online, which can be found by clicking the titles of the books.

Some of the books are labeled as "available online through Purdue Libraries", which can be found through Purdue libraries website.

Please feel free to contact me for questions about listed books or recommendations to other data science books to include in this libguide.

Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas
ISBN: 1491912057
Publication Date: 2017-01-03
This book by Jake VanderPlas introduces Python libraries for data science and machine learning. Book available online only
Data Science from Scratch by Joel Grus
ISBN: 1492041130
Publication Date: 2019-05-16
This book, by Joel Grus covers Python tutorials and the fundamental of data science and machine learning. Available online only.

R for Data Science by Wickham, Hadley, author; Grolemund, Garrett, author
ISBN: 1491910364
Publication Date: 2017
Classic data science book with R.
R Cookbook by J. D. Long; Paul Teetor
ISBN: 1492040681
Publication Date: 2019-07-16
More than 275 practical recipes using R.

Exploratory Data Analysis with R
Use R to effectively visualize and explore complex datasets.

Understanding Machine Learning by Shai Shalev-Shwartz; Shai Ben-David
ISBN: 1107298016
Publication Date: 2014-07-05
This book by Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David introduces machine learning concepts, mathematical fundamentals, and practical machine learning algorithms.
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow; Yoshua Bengio; Aaron Courville
ISBN: 9780262035613
Publication Date: 2016-11-18
This MIT Press book by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville introduces the mathematical and conceptual background of machine learning and deep learning.
Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet
Call Number: QA76.73.P98 C465 2018
ISBN: 1638352046
Publication Date: 2017-11-30
This book by Francois Chollet introduces deep learning with Python and Keras library. Book is available in the Math library and online

Social Media Data Mining and Analytics by Gabor Szabo; Gungor Polatkan; P. Oscar Boykin; Antonios Chalkiopoulos
ISBN: 9781118824856
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
This book by Gabor Szabo et al. covers topics on social media data collection and analysis with R.
Mining Social Media by Lam Thuy Vo
ISBN: 1593279167
Publication Date: 2019-11-25
This book by Lam Thuy Vo covers topics on social media data collection and analysis with Python.

Natural Language processing with Python
This book by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper introduce NPL with Python, from predictive text and email filtering to automatic summarization and translation.