[EBOOK] Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python, 2nd Edition

Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they’re also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. With this updated second edition, you’ll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch.


If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to get started as a data scientist. Today’s messy glut of data holds answers to questions no one’s even thought to ask. This book provides you with the know-how to dig those answers out.

Table of Contents​

1. Introduction
2. A Crash Course in Python
3. Visualizing Data
4. Linear Algebra
5. Statistics
6. Probability
7. Hypothesis and Inference
8. Gradient Descent
9. Getting Data
10. Working with Data
11. Machine Learning
12. k-Nearest Neighbors
13. Naive Bayes
14. Simple Linear Regression
15. Multiple Regression
16. Logistic Regression
17. Decision Trees
18. Neural Networks
19. Deep Learning
20. Clustering
21. Natural Language Processing
22. Network Analysis
23. Recommender Systems
24. Databases and SQL
25. MapReduce
26. Data Ethics
27. Go Forth and Do Data Science