Coding

• Oreilly Data Science Starter Kit
  • Some of these books focus on R, others on Python. Some try to accommodate both.
• Python for Data Analysis
  • A good place to start.
• Mining the Social Web, 2nd Edition
  • Great for seeing a bunch of APIs in action.
• Programming Collective Intelligence
  • This is not in the Data Science Starter Kit, but I like this book too.
• Building Machine Learning Systems with Python
  • I haven't read this, but a colleague said it was good.

Theory & Background

• An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani.
  • Download the PDF for FREE!
• The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman
  • A classic. Uses R. PDF Available for FREE!
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition I like this one too.
• OpenIntro.org They have a book, slides, videos, etc. for an undergraduate level series of statistics material.