The Data Mine’s Bookshelf

This page is still under construction. For now, you might find short hand names of the books. We are working on listing all the Purdue library links here. If you look up any of these books on Purdue’s library (which anyone can do, even non Purdue students) you will almost certainly find the book.

While most of these books are scattered throughout the Starter Guides on their respective topics, they are also listed here under their approximate content domain. All of these books come highly recommended. For Purdue students, most if not all of these books are free at the Purdue library link; for non-Purdue students, a good chunk of them should be free.

Data Analysis

Visualization

Devops

  • Intro to devops with chocolate, lego

Incorporating Diverse Backgrounds

  • Asked and Answered by Pamela E. Harris and Aris Winger (2020)

  • Practices and Policies by Pamela E. Harris and Aris Winger (2021)

  • Read and Rectify by Pamela E. Harris and Aris Winger (2022)

  • Testimonios by Pamela E. Harris, Alicia Prieto-Langarica, Vanessa Rivera Quiñones, Luis Sordo Vieira, Rosaura Uscanga, and Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez

  • Unleash Different by Rich Donovan (2018)

  • Why, How, and What of Data SCience for Social Impact

Version Control

SVN/Subversion

  • Version Control with Subversion

Git/Github

  • Learn git in a month of lunches

  • Building tools with Github

  • Git for Teams

  • Version Control with Git

Raspberry Pi

Miscellaneous Tools
  • Raspberry Pi cookbook

Open Source

  • Data analysis with open source tools

Command Line

  • Data science at the command line

Unix

GNU

  • Learning GNU Emacs

Tools

  • Flex and Bison