Required texts - available free online

The Practice of Reproducible Research. Justin Kitzes, Daniel Turek, Fatma Deniz (Eds.) 2017. UC Press.

Modern Dive. Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim. 2017.

R for Data Science. Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund. 2016. O’Reilly Media.

Data Science from Scratch. Joel Grus. 2015. O’Reilly Media. Free online via the URI library and Safari Books. Search the URI library for the title and follow the links.

A Whirlwind Tour of Python. Jake VanderPlas. 2016.

Python Data Science Handbook. Jake VanderPlas. 2017. O’Reilly Media.

Useful supplementary reads

Bioinformatics Data Skills. Vince Buffalo. 2015. O’Reilly Media.

Data Science at the Command Line. Jeroen Janssens. 2014. O’Reilly Media.

Doing Data Science. Rachel Schutt and Cathy O’Neill. 2013. O’Reilly Media.

Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools. 2016. Ian Foster, Rayid Ghani, Ron S. Jarmin, Frauke Kreuter, and Julia Lane, eds. CRC Press.

On Being a Data Skeptic. Cathy O’Neil. 2013. O’Reilly Media.

Other equipment / material requirements

Mac, Linux, or Windows laptop (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) with administrative privileges. Please contact the instructor if you do not have a laptop and purchasing one would be a financial difficulty.