BEST Books to Learn Data Science for Beginners 📚

In this video, I'm sharing some of my all-time favorite books for learning and practicing data science. Since data science is such a vast field, I'm narrowing my recommendations down to two specific areas: statistics and machine learning. I’ve even included different options for beginners versus more experienced learners who want to refresh their knowledge.

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Contents of this video:
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00:00 Introduction
00:50 Statistics
01:41 OpenIntro Statistics
02:26 Mathematical Statistics
04:06 Machine Learning
04:11 The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
05:36 Machine Learning With PyTorch and Scikit-Learn
07:06 Designing Machine Learning Systems
08:56 Outro

[tubeampsrule]

Emma, the value you're bringing in these videos is ridiculously good! Top work!

[robrinehart]

Thank you for this book list! I'm currently in a data science certificate program and have been struggling to learn some of the concepts. I ordered the openintro statistics book and the 100 page machine learning book earlier in the week. I started reading them and have found both to be very useful to fill in the gaps in my knowledge already. Very easy to read and informative, I know I'll refer back to them a lot. Thank you again for the recommendations and I'll likely order the rest of the list!

[tpd]

I'm a generic SWE who spends a good amount of time in data and wants to understand machine learning better. This has been wonderful, thank you so much for putting it together.

[praveenl]

Well presented Emma. Will read these books for sure👍🏻

[facualexandre]

Thank you Emma for the recomendations!! Study time

[mikefan]

Hi Emma thank you for the book recommendations. Watched a lot of your videos and learned a lot about the data science field ❤.

[mwtichenor]

Thanks for the book list. I prefer reading to watching short videos

[shubhamparihar]

Thank you so much, very good book recommendations especially the number 1 book which was OpenIntro i have never heard about this book in any other video i went through its free pdf it looks insightful i will definately purchase it in future, your other book recommendations were also very good, thanks for sharing this good video.

[hendrasdrtube]

Already forgot statistics, thanks for mention the books

[nanzhao]

Emma, do you recommend reading the Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R book if I don't know R at all?

[spikeydude]

What about for A/B testing at scale? Many experiments going on at the same time.

[Mimimi]

Why data science book always has an animal on cover? No creativity at all