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Re: Free Data Science Books

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crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

Hmm. Interesting. I just implemented the smooth scroll yesterday so I will definitely check that out. Thanks for the input.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by weavie »

snoman wrote: post #23
weavie wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Elements of Statistical Learning together with the online course ( http://www.r-bloggers.com/in-depth-introduction-to-machine-l... ) makes for a great introduction. EDIT: Oops I should have said "An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R" rather than The Elements of Statistical Learning. The Elements book goes into way too much depth to be a good introduction to the subject.

Similarly, An Introduction to Statistical Learning With Applications in R is like a practical version of (or companion to) Elements. I very much enjoyed it.

Yes good point, my bad - I meant to link to "An Introduction" rather than "Elements". Elements is not a good starting point - your head will explode.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by LearnDataSci »

crazypyro wrote: post #6

Why are you hijacking my scroll speed... Your "smooth-scroll" library is completely breaking my touchpad scroll with an Acer c720 Chromebook. One slight movement (which should be a few pixels scroll) is moving me over half-way down the screen. Makes your site unusable with this touchpad as accidental scrolling sometimes happens and moves the screen a whole page away, especially when trying to right click open links b…

I made a change to the code, but since I don't have a touchpad, I won't be able to tell if it's fixed. Let me know what happens if you happen to go back to the page.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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piraze wrote: post #25

At least "Python for Data Analysis" is a pirate copy. Wonder how many others are too. But as long as you make money from affiliate links you don't care, right?

What makes it seem like Python for Data Analysis is a pirated copy? I figured since it was hosted from Canisius College it would be legally distributed.

I don't want to host pirated content, so if it is I will remove it.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by gdulli »

piraze wrote: post #25

At least "Python for Data Analysis" is a pirate copy. Wonder how many others are too. But as long as you make money from affiliate links you don't care, right?

Lists of "curated" free books/resources etc. are a very active spam format these days. It's a simple and effective way of publishing without having any original content of your own. People love clicking on these things because they love the idea of learning.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by msellout »

fitzwatermellow wrote: post #24

I noticed something last night while watching the Djokovic US Open quarter-final. It featured an "IBM Insights" segment which claimed to have mined 8 years worth of Majors competitions to generate stats. And one interesting result it was able to produce went something like this: if Djokovic is able to return only 25% of his opponents serves, then in 85% of past matches it has resulted in victory for him. The implicat…

I don't understand that IBM Insights note about Djokovic. Can you explain more?

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by yoklov »

Is anybody aware of good books/resources on machine learning/data science in Matlab?

My SO has been trying to learn ML to further her work for a couple months now, and has had a hard time with it. She quite intelligent, but isn't a terribly experienced programmer (she's been writing Matlab for a couple years now, but mostly in a scientific setting)... Either way, I suspect part of the problem is that most of the explanations usually are in a language unfamiliar to her, and expect her to learn or translate it in addition to the concepts.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by piraze »

LearnDataSci wrote: post #34
piraze wrote: post #25

At least "Python for Data Analysis" is a pirate copy. Wonder how many others are too. But as long as you make money from affiliate links you don't care, right?

What makes it seem like Python for Data Analysis is a pirated copy? I figured since it was hosted from Canisius College it would be legally distributed. I don't want to host pirated content, so if it is I will remove it.

The book is not listed at http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

Also the PDF has a link to a notorious ebook pirate platform on every page. If you really believe content on college pages is legal, you must be very naive. I've never seen a naive webmaster that uses domain privacy though.

Re: Free Data Science Books

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Post by hguant »

msellout wrote: post #37
fitzwatermellow wrote: post #24

I noticed something last night while watching the Djokovic US Open quarter-final. It featured an "IBM Insights" segment which claimed to have mined 8 years worth of Majors competitions to generate stats. And one interesting result it was able to produce went something like this: if Djokovic is able to return only 25% of his opponents serves, then in 85% of past matches it has resulted in victory for him. The implicat…

I don't understand that IBM Insights note about Djokovic. Can you explain more?

Without doing the math - Djokovic is such a strong player that even if he's only returning a quarter of your serves, meaning you're 3/4's of the way to winning your set (I don't tennis, sorry if I'm getting the terms wrong), he's still probably going to beat you.
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