Foundations of Data Science [pdf]

I&#x27;m an accountant but work consulting as a data&#x2F;software &quot;engineer&quot; (or in those roles). For a while I got excited by all the &quot;data science&quot; books, until I admitted to myself 2 years ago that without the Math &amp; Stats background, I&#x27;m wasting my time.<p>I went back to varsity (part time) this year, studying Applied Maths and Stats. Even with the basics that I now know, going through this book; I can feel that a glass ceiling is broken.<p>I&#x27;m going to print it bit by bit, and study its contents (after my exams). Thanks!

Not to be confused with, &quot;The Foundations of Data Science&quot;, a free textbook used&#x2F;created for UC Berkeley&#x27;s data science course:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inferentialthinking.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inferentialthinking.com&#x2F;</a>

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Looks like this book heavily intersects with &quot;Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis&quot; by Mitzenmacher&#x2F;Upfal [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=E9UlDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA1&amp;source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;books?id=E9UlDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA1&amp;source...</a>

Ravindran Kannan, one of the authors taught a course of the same name at CSA, IISc. The video lectures of the course are available here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in&#x2F;~chiru&#x2F;datascience&#x2F;iisclectures.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in&#x2F;~chiru&#x2F;datascience&#x2F;iisclectur...</a>

I always thought linear regression was a “foundation” of this field, but there is no discussion of a technique by this name in this book. Is there another name it goes by?

of all of the modern grad books this one has always struck me as the most mathematically rigorous. an heir to trevor&#x27;s esl.

Quite dense! Just reading the first paragraph assumes good background knowledge. Wish I could grasp this stuff!

Not to be confused with an &#x27;Introduction to data science&#x27; book

is there an epub?

I also recommend ISLR <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www-bcf.usc.edu&#x2F;~gareth&#x2F;ISL&#x2F;</a>