Use These Resources to Hone Your Data Science Skills
Books
Statistical Modeling in Biology
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Bolker BM. 2008. Ecological Models and Data in R. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Irizarry RA, Love MI. 2015. Data Analysis for the Life Sciences. Lean Publishing.
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Quinn GP, Keough MJ. 2002. Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
R and Basic Statistics
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Caffo B. 2015. Statistical Inference for Data Science. Lean Publishing.
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Caffo B. 2016. Regression Models for Data Science in R. Lean Publishing.
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Dalgaard P. 2008. Introductory Statistics with R (Second Edition). New York: Springer.
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Shahbaba B. 2012. Biostatistics with R. New York: Springer.
R Programming
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Adler J. 2009. R in a Nutshell. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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Kabacoff RI. 2011. R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R. Shelter Island, NY: Manning Publications Co.
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Matloff N. 2011. The Art of R Programming: A Tour of Statistical Software Design. San Francisco: No Starch Press.
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Peng R. 2016. R Programming for Data Science. Lean Publishing.
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Peng R. 2016. Exploratory Data Analysis with R. Lean Publishing.
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Zuur AF, Ieno EN, Meesters EHWG. 2009. A Beginner’s Guide to R. New York: Springer.
R Reference
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Crawley MJ. 2012. The R Book (Second Edition). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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Gardener M. 2012. The Essential R Reference. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Teetor P. 2011. R Cookbook. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
R Graphics
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Chang W. 2013. R Graphics Cookbook. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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Wickham H. 2016. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Second Edition). Springer International Publishing.
Data Science and Visualization
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Dale K. 2016. Data Visualization with Python and JavaScript. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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Grus J. 2015. Data Science from Scratch. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.
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Kazil J, Jarmul K. 2016. Data Wrangling with Python. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.
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Peng RD, Matsui E. 2015. The Art of Data Science. Lean Publishing.
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Zumel N, Mount J. 2014. Practical Data Science with R. Shelter Island, NY: Manning Publications Co.
Spatial Analysis
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Bivand RS, Pebesma E, Gómez-Rubio V. 2013. Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R (Second Edition). New York: Springer.
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Brundson C, Comber L. 2015. An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping. London: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Mixed Effects Models
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Garamszegi LZ. 2014. Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology. Berlin: Springer.
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Pinheiro JC, Bates DM. 2000. Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus. New York: Springer.
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Zuur AF, Ieno EN, Walker NJ, Savaliev AA, Smith GM. 2009. Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R. New York: Springer.
Web Scraping and Text Mining
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Friedl JEF. 2000. Mastering Regular Expressions (Third Edition). Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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Mitchell R. 2015. Web Scraping with Python. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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Nolan D, Temple Lang D. 2014. XML and Web Technologies for Data Sciences with R. New York: Springer.
Statistics and Programming in Python
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Downey A. 2014. Think Stats (Second Edition). Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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Lubanovic B. 2014. Introducing Python. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
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McKinney W. 2013. Python for Data Analysis. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.