What open-source books (or other materials) provide a relatively thorough overview of data science? [closed]

Question

As a researcher and instructor, I'm looking for open-source books (or similar materials) that provide a relatively thorough overview of data science from an applied perspective. To be clear, I'm especially interested in a thorough overview that provides material suitable for a college-level course, not particular pieces or papers.

Answer 1

One book that's freely available is "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman (published by Springer): see Tibshirani's website.

Another fantastic source, although it isn't a book, is Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera. This has a much more applied-focus than the above book, and Prof. Ng does a great job of explaining the thinking behind several different machine learning algorithms/situations.

Answer 2

Data Science specialization from Johns Hopkins University at Coursera would be a great start. https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1

Answer 3

There is free ebook "Introduction to Data Science" based on r language