Best Data Science Books

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Best data science books recommended by developers. Statistics, data analysis, visualization, and applied analytics.

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Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts

Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce

60 in 90d

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Python for Data Analysis

Wes McKinney

50 in 90d

data-sciencepythondata

12.5

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Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse

Alex Merced

142 in 90d

databasesdata-sciencedata

10.6

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Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil

40 in 90d

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Data Science for Business

Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett

40 in 90d

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Web Scraping with Python

Ryan Mitchell

31 in 90d

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8.3

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Spark: The Definitive Guide

Bill Chambers, Matei Zaharia

31 in 90d

data-sciencedatabasesdata

8.3

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit

Ralph Kimball

30 in 90d

databasesdata-sciencedata

7.5

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Christopher M. Bishop

21 in 90d

machine-learningdata-scienceai-ml

5.8

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Modern Business Analytics

Deanne Larson

70 in 90d

data-sciencedatabasesdata

5.5

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The Modern Business Data Analyst

Dominik Jung

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The Grammar of Graphics

Leland Wilkinson

20 in 90d

data-sciencedata

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Data Science and Big Data Analytics

EMC Education Services

20 in 90d

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The Enterprise Big Data Lake

Alex Gorelik

20 in 90d

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The Elements of Statistical Learning

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman

20 in 90d

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Automating Inequality

Virginia Eubanks

20 in 90d

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Enabling Agentic Analytics with Apache Iceberg and Dremio

Alex Merced

22 in 90d

databasesdata-sciencedata

4.6

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Python for Everybody

Charles R. Severance

50 in 90d

pythondata-sciencebackend

4.5

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Prediction Machines

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb

20 in 90d

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Python Data Science Handbook

Jake VanderPlas

10 in 90d

pythondata-sciencedata

2.5

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Best Data Science Books

Rankings

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts

Python for Data Analysis

Architecting an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse

Weapons of Math Destruction

Data Science for Business

Web Scraping with Python

Spark: The Definitive Guide

The Data Warehouse Toolkit

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Modern Business Analytics

The Modern Business Data Analyst

The Grammar of Graphics

Data Science and Big Data Analytics

The Enterprise Big Data Lake

The Elements of Statistical Learning

Automating Inequality

Enabling Agentic Analytics with Apache Iceberg and Dremio

Python for Everybody

Prediction Machines

Python Data Science Handbook

Explore Data Science by Level & Intent

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