Leandro was surfing GitHub when he found this repository: Awesome Data Science
It has an extensive list of data science bloggers, MOOCS and the diamond: a free list of 24 free datasets sources. Excellent to study and apply some data science techniques.
Some highlights:
MOOC’s
- Google Making Sense of Data
- Coursera Introduction to Data Science
- Data Science – 9 Steps Courses, A Specialization on Coursera
- Data Mining – 5 Steps Courses, A Specialization on Coursera
- CS 109 Data Science
- Schoolofdata
- OpenIntro
- Data science MOOC
- CS 171 Visualization
- Process Mining: Data science in Action
Data Sets
- Academic Torrents
- hadoopilluminated.com
- data.gov
- freebase.com
- usgovxml.com
- enigma.io
- datahub.io
- aws.amazon.com/datasets
- databib.org
- datacite.org
- quandl.com
- figshare.com
- GeoLite Legacy Downloadable Databases
- Quora’s Big Datasets Answer
- Public Big Data Sets
- Houston Data Portal
- Kaggle Data Sources
- A Deep Catalog of Human Genetic Variation
- A community-curated database of well-known people, places, and things
- Google Public Data
- World Bank Data
- NYC Taxi data
- Open Data Philly Connecting people with data for Philadelphia
- A list of useful sources A blog post includes many data set databases
DSC Resources
- Career: Training | Books | Cheat Sheet | Apprenticeship | Certification | Salary Surveys | Jobs
- Knowledge: Research | Competitions | Webinars | Our Book | Members Only | Search DSC
- Buzz: Business News | Announcements | Events | RSS Feeds
- Misc: Top Links | Code Snippets | External Resources | Best Blogs | Subscribe | For Bloggers
Additional Reading
- Data Scientist Reveals his Growth Hacking Techniques
- Top data science keywords on DSC
- 4 easy steps to becoming a data scientist
- 13 New Trends in Big Data and Data Science
- 22 tips for better data science
- Data Science Compared to 16 Analytic Disciplines
- How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the real ones
- 17 short tutorials all data scientists should read (and practice)
- 10 types of data scientists
- 66 job interview questions for data scientists
- High versus low-level data science
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Vincent Granville
Stackoverflow.com also has nice forum discussions on data science, And of course, on our DSC network, especially on AnalyticBridge for
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