Helpful Resources for Workshops

Installations

Swirl is an excellent tutorial for learning R interactively in RStudio. Highly recommended.

(example) Yong-Yeol Ahn, Sebastian E. Ahnert, James P. Bagrow, Albert-László Barabási, Flavor network and the principles of food pairing, Scientific Reports 1, Article number: 196 doi:10.1038/srep00196
(example) Acerbi A, Lampos V, Garnett P, Bentley RA (2013) The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059030
(example) Google Flu Trends
(example) Eigenfactor, and publications
(example) L’Aquila quake: Italy scientists guilty of manslaughter, BBC
eScience: The Fourth Paradigm (Foreward and Introduction, pages xi - xxxi; Gray’s Laws, pages 5-12)
Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete” , Wired magazine, 2008 Responses to Chris Anderson, 2008

Statistics is Easy! Dennis Sasha, Manda Wilson, Morgan and Claypool
Chapter 3 of A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R
Gregory Park on overfitting to the leaderboard in a Kaggle Competition
Xindong Wu et al., Top 10 Algorithms in Data Mining, Knowledge and Information Systems, 14(2008), 1: 1-37.
Ullman, Rajaraman, Mining of Massive Datasets , Chapter 1
Pedro Domingos, A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning, CACM 55(10), 2012
Machine Learning Yearning
The Art of Data Science

Hans Rosling, The Joy of Stats
Pat Hanaran, Tools for Data Enthusiasts
Jeffrey Heer, Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky, A Tour through the Visualization Zoo, Communications of the ACM, Volume 53 Issue 6, June 2010
Graphics Lies, Misleading Visuals-Alberto Cairo