100 Best Big Data Books of All Time

We've ranked the best big data books using expert recommendations, sales data, and millions of reader ratings. At Shortform, we know books. Our book guides are the best in the world. Learn why.

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy book cover1

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O'Neil

5.0
Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller


A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life -- and threaten to rip apart our social fabric

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance--are being made not
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are book cover2

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

5.0
Foreword by Steven Pinker

Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions.

By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, human bei
Designing Data-Intensive Applications book cover3

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

4.9
Many forces affect software today: larger datasets, geographical disparities, complex company structures, and the growing need to be fast and nimble in the face of change.

Proven approaches such as service-oriented and event-driven architectures are joined by newer techniques such as microservices, reactive architectures, DevOps, and stream processing. Many of these patterns are successful by thems
Outliers: The Story of Success book cover4

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

4.7
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game book cover5

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

4.7
Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Michael Lewis mines all these possibilities - his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think book cover6

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier

4.6
A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.

Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?

The key to answe
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't book cover7

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Nate Silver

4.6
One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012

New York Times Bestseller

"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion on the Vietnam War…could turn out to be one of the more momentous books of the decade."
-New York Times Book Review

"Na
The Design of Everyday Things book cover8

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

4.6
Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary r
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything book cover9

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt

4.6
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What kind of impact did Roe v. Wade have on violent crime? Freakonomics will literally redefine the way we view the modern world.

These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction book cover10

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

4.5
A New York Times Bestseller

An Economist Best Book of 2015

"The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow."
—Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal

Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible foreca
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book cover11

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez

4.5
Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built fo
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power book cover12

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

4.5
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.

In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The sta
Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking book cover13

Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking

Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett

4.4
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.

Based on an MBA course Pr
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies book cover14

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

4.4
Superintelligence asks the questions: what happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life.

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant posi
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide book cover15

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Tom White

4.4
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets, a
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Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)

Christian Rudder

4.4
A New York Times Bestseller

An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making


Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.

For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a
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Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis

Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, et al

4.4
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Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems

Nathan Marz, James Warren

4.4
Services like social networks, web analytics, and intelligent e-commerce often need to manage data at a scale too big for a traditional database. As scale and demand increase, so does Complexity. Fortunately, scalability and simplicity are not mutually exclusive—rather than using some trendy technology, a different approach is needed. Big data systems use many machines working in parallel to store
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability book cover19

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

4.3
Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.

In this 3rd edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic-–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usabil
Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple book cover20

Spark: The Definitive Guide: Big Data Processing Made Simple

Bill Chambers

4.3
Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals.

You'll explore the basic operations and common functions of Spark's st
Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals book cover21

Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

4.3
Don't simply show your data--tell a story with it!Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples--ready for im
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data book cover23

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Charles Wheelan

4.3
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called “sexy.” From batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics continues to grow by leaps and bounds. How can we catch schools that cheat on standardized tests? How does Netflix know which m
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software book cover24

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

4.3
What do flashlights, the British invasion, black cats, and seesaws have to do with computers? In CODE, they show us the ingenious ways we manipulate language and invent new means of communicating with each other. And through CODE, we see how this ingenuity and our very human compulsion to communicate have driven the technological innovations of the past two centuries.

Using everyday objects and fam
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Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

JOHN W. FOREMAN

4.3
Data Science gets thrown around in the press like it's magic. Major retailers are predicting everything from when their customers are pregnant to when they want a new pair of Chuck Taylors. It's a brave new world where seemingly meaningless data can be transformed into valuable insight to drive smart business decisions.

But how does one exactly do data science? Do you have to hire one of these prie
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An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R

Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani

4.2
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning, an essential toolset for making sense of the vast and complex data sets that have emerged in fields ranging from biology to finance to marketing to astrophysics in the past twenty years. This book presents some of the most important modeling and prediction techniques, along with relevant a
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order book cover27

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

Kai-Fu Lee

4.2
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has suddenly caught up to the US at an astonishingly rapid and unexpected pace. In AI Superpowers, Kai-fu Lee argues powerfully that because of these unprecedented developments in AI, dramatic changes will be happening much sooner than many of us expected. Indeed, as the US-Sino AI competition begins to hea
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance book cover28

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

Steven D. Levitt

4.2
The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with SuperFreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.

Four years in the making, SuperFre
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Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, Numpy, and Ipython

Wes McKinney

4.2
Looking for complete instructions on manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching structured data in Python? The second edition of this hands-on guide--updated for Python 3.5 and Pandas 1.0--is packed with practical cases studies that show you how to effectively solve a broad set of data analysis problems, using Python libraries such as NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and IPython.

Written by Wes Mc
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Mining of Massive Datasets

Anand Rajaraman, Jeffrey David Ullman

4.2
The popularity of the Web and Internet commerce provides many extremely large datasets from which information can be gleaned by data mining. This book focuses on practical algorithms that have been used to solve key problems in data mining and which can be used on even the largest datasets. It begins with a discussion of the map-reduce framework, an important tool for parallelizing algorithms auto
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster book cover31

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz

4.2
Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. Lean Analytics steers you in the right direction.

This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word. Pa
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems book cover32

Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

Sam Newman

4.2
Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction book cover33

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman

4.2

During the past decade there has been an explosion in computation and information technology. With it have come vast amounts of data in a variety of fields such as medicine, biology, finance, and marketing. The challenge of understanding these data has led to the development of new tools in the field of statistics, and spawned new areas such as data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Ma

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information book cover34

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

4.2
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relat
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Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale

Neha Narkhede, Gwen Shapira, Todd Palino

4.2
Every enterprise application creates data, whether it's log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. And how to move all of this data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. If you're an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Kafka, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source streaming platform to handle real-tim
Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python book cover36

Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python

Joel Grus

4.2
To really learn data science, you should not only master the tools--data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits--but also understand the ideas and principles underlying them. Updated for Python 3.6, this second edition of Data Science from Scratch shows you how these tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch.

If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programmi
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood book cover37

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

4.2
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.

The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soo
Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die book cover38

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

Eric Siegel

4.2
"Mesmerizing & fascinating..." -- The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"The Freakonomics of big data." --Stein Kretsinger, founding executive of Advertising.com

Award-winning - Used by over 30 universities - Translated into 9 languages

An introduction for everyone. In this rich, fascinating -- surprisingly accessible -- introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics (aka machi
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MapReduce Design Patterns: Building Effective Algorithms and Analytics for Hadoop and Other Systems

Donald Miner, Adam Shook

4.2
Until now, design patterns for the MapReduce framework have been scattered among various research papers, blogs, and books. This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language, or development framework you’re using.

Each pattern is explained in context, with pitfalls and caveats clearly identified
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

Bruce Schneier

4.1
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you’re thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it.

T
Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions book cover41

Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

4.1
I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. I've been through this as a candidate and as an interviewer.

Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your
SQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL book cover42

SQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL

Walter Shields

4.1
SQL Made Easy- The Ultimate Step by Step Guide To Success Do you want to learn SQL programming without the complicated explanations?
Do you want to understand how to manage databases without all the confusion?
Well than, this is your go to guide to help you master SQL programming in no time!
This book breaks down the fundamentals elements that are essential to make you proficient in SQL programm
Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering book cover43

Ontology Pipeline: A Framework for Knowledge Engineering

Jessica Talisman

4.1

Build semantic knowledge systems with trusted and AI-ready taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs.Ontology Pipeline gives data leaders, semantic engineers, ontologists, taxonomists, knowledge managers, librarians, AI architects, and enterprise data teams a practical framework for turning messy organizational language into structured, machine-readable knowledge. Instead of treating ontology d

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data book cover44

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data

David Spiegelhalter

4.1
The definitive guide to statistical thinking
Statistics are everywhere, as integral to science as they are to business, and in the popular media hundreds of times a day. In this age of big data, a basic grasp of statistical literacy is more important than ever if we want to separate the fact from the fiction, the ostentatious embellishments from the raw evidence -- and even more so if we hope to pa
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Data Science with R

Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund

4.1
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Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

Christopher Wylie

4.1
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.

Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake Am
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Data Analysis with Open Source Tools: A Hands-On Guide for Programmers and Data Scientists

Philipp K. Janert

4.1
Collecting data is relatively easy, but turning raw information into something useful requires that you know how to extract precisely what you need. With this insightful book, intermediate to experienced programmers interested in data analysis will learn techniques for working with data in a business environment. You'll learn how to look at data to discover what it contains, how to capture those i
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing book cover48

Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

Ron Kohavi

4.1
Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls, an
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Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide: A Distributed Real-Time Search and Analytics Engine

Clinton Gormley, Zachary Tong

4.1
Whether you need full-text search or real-time analytics of structured data--or both--the Elasticsearch distributed search engine is an ideal way to put your data to work. This practical guide not only shows you how to search, analyze, and explore data with Elasticsearch, but also helps you deal with the complexities of human language, geolocation, and relationships.

If you're a newcomer to both se
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Glenn Greenwald

4.1
By Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the twenty-nine-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowde
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Big Data for Dummies

Judith S. Hurwitz, Alan Nugent, et al.

4.1
Find the right big data solution for your business or organization

Big data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quickly outpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If you need to de
The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios book cover52

The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios

Steve Wexler, Jeffrey Shaffer, et al.

4.1
The definitive reference book with real-world solutions you won't find anywhere elseTheBig Book of Dashboards presents a comprehensive reference for those tasked with building or overseeing the development of business dashboards.

Comprising dozens of examples that address different industries and departments (healthcare, transportation, finance, human resources, marketing, customer service, sports,
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Python Data Science Handbook: Tools and Techniques for Developers

Jake VanderPlas

4.1
For many researchers, Python is a first-class tool mainly because of its libraries for storing, manipulating, and gaining insight from data. Several resources exist for individual pieces of this data science stack, but only with the Python Data Science Handbook do you get them all—IPython, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, and other related tools.

Working scientists and data crunchers famili
Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch) book cover54

Build a Reasoning Model (From Scratch)

Sebastian Raschka

4.1

Get the eBook free when you register your print book at Manning."An exceptional deep dive into the next frontier of AI.”—Aman Chadha, GoogleThis book is a practical guide to understanding how modern reasoning-oriented LLMs work by building their core methods step by step. The book tells a clear engineering story: start with a conventional pre-trained LLM, learn how text generation works, build rel

Fundamentals of Data Engineering book cover55

Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Joe Reis

4.1

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle.Author

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Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

Thomas H. Davenport

4.1
Go ahead, be skeptical about big data. The author was—at first.

When the term “big data” first came on the scene, bestselling author Tom Davenport (Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work) thought it was just another example of technology hype. But his research in the years that followed changed his mind.

Now, in clear, conversational language, Davenport explains what big data means—and why everyo
SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself book cover57

SQL in 10 Minutes a Day, Sams Teach Yourself

Ben Forta

4.1
Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results.
By working through the book's 22 lessons of 10 minutes or less, you'll learn what you need to know to take advantage of the SQL language.
Lessons cover IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Express, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle and Oracle express, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Full-color code e
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Heavy Construction Costs with Rsmeans Data: 60169

RS Means

4.1
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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book

Andriy Burkov

4.1
WARNING! To avoid buying counterfeit on Amazon, click on "See All Buying Options" and choose "Amazon.com" and not a third-party seller.

Concise and to the point — the book can be read during a week. During that week, you will learn almost everything modern machine learning has to offer. The author and other practitioners have spent years learning these concepts.

Companion wiki — the book has a conti
Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation book cover60

Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation

Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst

4.1
The Excel Complete Course: From the Very Basics to Advanced Features, Formulas, Functions, Macros, Charts, and PivotTables, with over 1000 images and step-by-step instructions book cover61

The Excel Complete Course: From the Very Basics to Advanced Features, Formulas, Functions, Macros, Charts, and PivotTables, with over 1000 images and step-by-step instructions

Jenny Douras

4.1

Master Excel faster, work smarter, and build skills that last.If you’ve ever felt intimidated by formulas, spreadsheets, or the many features packed into Excel, this book was made for you. The Excel Complete Course 2026 breaks everything down into clear, visual, step-by-step lessons that help you build practical Excel skills quickly and confidently.Whether you’re learning for work, school, busines

R for Data Science book cover62

R for Data Science

Hadley Wickham

4.1
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The Industries of the Future

Alec Ross

4.1
This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community over the twenty years from 1994 to 2014. In the next ten years, change will happen even faster.

As Hillary Clinton's Senior Advisor for Innovation, Alec Ross travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries, the equivalent of two round-trips to the moon. From refuge
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies book cover64

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Erik Brynjolfsson

4.1
A revolution is under way. In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies with hardware, software, and networks at their core will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many t
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NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence

Pramod J. Sadalage

4.1
The need to handle increasingly larger data volumes is one factor driving the adoption of a new class of nonrelational "NoSQL" databases. Advocates of NoSQL databases claim they can be used to build systems that are more performant, scale better, and are easier to program." ""NoSQL Distilled" is a concise but thorough introduction to this rapidly emerging technology. Pramod J. Sadalage and Martin
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Big Data: Using Smart Big Data, Analytics and Metrics to Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance

Bernard Marr

4.1
Convert the promise of big data into real world results There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works - that much is obvious. But is a basic understanding of the theory enough to hold your own in strategy meetings? Probably. But what will set you apart from the rest is actually knowing how to USE big data to get solid, real-world business results - and putt
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Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data

Phil Simon

4.1
Residents in Boston, Massachusetts are automatically reporting potholes and road hazards via their smartphones. Progressive Insurance tracks real-time customer driving patterns and uses that information to offer rates truly commensurate with individual safety. Google accurately predicts local flu outbreaks based upon thousands of user search queries. Amazon provides remarkably insightful, relevant
Learning From Data: A Short Course book cover68

Learning From Data: A Short Course

Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

4.1
Machine learning allows computational systems to adaptively improve their performance with experience accumulated from the observed data. Its techniques are widely applied in engineering, science, finance, and commerce. This book is designed for a short course on machine learning. It is a short course, not a hurried course. From over a decade of teaching this material, we have distilled what we be
Access 2019 Bible book cover69

Access 2019 Bible

Michael Alexander

4.0
Master database creation and managementAccess 2019 Bible is your, comprehensive reference to the world's most popular database management tool. With clear guidance toward everything from the basics to the advanced, this go-to reference helps you take advantage of everything Access 2019 has to offer. Whether you're new to Access or getting started with Access 2019, you'll find everything you need t
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Christopher M. Bishop

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Pattern recognition has its origins in engineering, whereas machine learning grew out of computer science. However, these activities can be viewed as two facets of the same field, and together they have undergone substantial development over the past ten years. In particular, Bayesian methods have grown from a specialist niche to become mainstream, while graphical models have emerged as a general
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

Pedro Domingos

4.0
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own
In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is on to invent the ultimate learning algorithm: one capable of discovering any knowledge from data, and doing anything we want, before we even ask. In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos lifts the veil
The Microsoft Office 365 Bible: The Most Updated and Complete Guide to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, Access, and Publisher from Beginners to Advanced book cover72

The Microsoft Office 365 Bible: The Most Updated and Complete Guide to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, OneDrive, Teams, Access, and Publisher from Beginners to Advanced

James Holler

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⭐ This bundle includes 4 COMPLETELY FREE EBOOKS! Find out how to download them inside the book ⭐NOW! Stop wasting time and money trying to figure out everything yourself and master all the functions of the Office Suite!If you are a fan of PC and use it for work, entertainment, or anything else, mastering main Microsoft Programs is a MUST. I can’t tell you enough how many people I see not just stru

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Learning Spark

Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, et al.

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The Definitive Guide to DAX: Business intelligence for Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel (Business Skills)

Marco Russo

4.0
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Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)

Sebastian Raschka

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Data Analytics for Absolute Beginners: A Deconstructed Guide to Data Literacy: (Introduction to Data, Data Visualization, Business Intelligence & Machine Learning)

Oliver Theobald

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While exposure to data has become more or less a daily ritual for the rank-and-file knowledge worker, true understanding-treated in this book as data literacy-resides in knowing what lies behind the data. Everything from the data's source to the specific choice of input variables, algorithmic transformations, and visual representation shape the accuracy, relevance, and value of the data and mark i
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Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence

Charity Majors, Austin Parker, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda

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Observability is the only way to engineer, manage, and improve the business-critical systems that customers depend on every day—and as the complexity of software grows, so does the need for observability. With this thoroughly revised second edition, authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda take inventory of the current state of the field and explain how practitioners can evolve t

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Python for Everybody: Exploring Data in Python 3

Charles Severance

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Python for Everybody is designed to introduce students to programming and software development through the lens of exploring data. You can think of the Python programming language as your tool to solve data problems that are beyond the capability of a spreadsheet. Python is an easy to use and easy to learn programming language that is freely available on Macintosh, Windows, or Linux computers. So
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SQL Programming: a QuickStudy Laminated Reference Guide

Robin Nixon

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Essential Structured Query Language (ANSI SQL-99) six page laminated guide with core commands, statements, syntax and terms for support of beginners who are learning, and experts as a handy quick reference. Author Robin Nixon worked with computers in the 80s and started developing websites in the 90s becoming an expert and writing over 40 programming books and over 500 articles for top computer ma

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The Definitive Guide to Dax: Business Intelligence for Microsoft Power Bi, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Excel

Marco Russo

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Now expanded and updated with modern best practices, this is the most complete guide to Microsoft's DAX language for business intelligence, data modeling, and analytics. Expert Microsoft BI consultants Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari help you master everything from table functions through advanced code and model optimization. You'll learn exactly what happens under the hood when you run a DAX expr
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Storm Applied

Sean T. Allen, Matthew Jankowski, Peter Pathirana

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The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

Scott E. Page

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How anyone can become a data ninja

From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematica
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Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People

Aditya Bhargava

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An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms you'll use most often as a programmer have already been discovered, tested, and proven. If you want to take a hard pass on Knuth's brilliant but impenetrable theories and the dense multi-page proofs you'll find in most textbooks, this is the book for you. This fully-illustrated and engaging guide makes
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Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms for Big Data Applications

Andrii Gakhov

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A technical book about popular space-efficient data structures and fast algorithms that are extremely useful in modern Big Data applications.

The purpose of this book is to introduce technology practitioners, including software architects and developers, as well as technology decision makers to probabilistic data structures and algorithms. Reading this book, you will get a theoretical and practical
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Practical SQL, 2nd Edition: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data

Anthony DeBarros

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Analyze data like a pro, even if you’re a beginner.Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. Anthony DeBarros, a journalist and data analyst, focuses on using SQL to find the story within your data. The examples and code use the open-source databas

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The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling

Ralph Kimball

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Updated new edition of Ralph Kimball's groundbreaking book on dimensional modeling for data warehousing!

The first edition of Ralph Kimball's "The Data Warehouse Toolkit" introduced the foundation on which the data warehousing industry has been built - and now, these books are considered the most authoritative guides on dimensional modeling. This new third edition is a complete library of dimension
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Eubanks

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Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to Html, Css, Javascript, and Web Graphics

Jennifer Robbins

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Do you want to build web pages but have no prior experience? This friendly guide is the perfect place to start. You'll begin at square one, learning how the web and web pages work, and then steadily build from there. By the end of the book, you'll have the skills to create a simple site with multicolumn pages that adapt for mobile devices.

Each chapter provides exercises to help you learn various t
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Computer Programming: 2 Books in 1: The Ultimate Crash Course to learn Python and Sql , with Practical Computer Coding Exercises

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Google BigQuery: The Definitive Guide: Data Warehousing, Analytics, and Machine Learning at Scale

Valliappa Lakshmanan and Jordan Tigani

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Work with petabyte-scale datasets while building a collaborative, agile workplace in the process. This practical book is the canonical reference to Google BigQuery, the query engine that lets you conduct interactive analysis of large datasets. BigQuery enables enterprises to efficiently store, query, ingest, and learn from their data in a convenient framework. With this book, you'll examine how to
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Hadoop Operations

Eric Sammer

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If you've been asked to maintain large and complex Hadoop clusters, this book is a must. Demand for operations-specific material has skyrocketed now that Hadoop is becoming the de facto standard for truly large-scale data processing in the data center. Eric Sammer, Principal Solution Architect at Cloudera, shows you the particulars of running Hadoop in production, from planning, installing, and co
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Python All-in-One For Dummies

John C. Shovic

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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

George Gilder

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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade."

“Google’s algorithms assume the world’s future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder sh
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T-SQL Fundamentals (Developer Reference)

Itzik Ben-Gan

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Query and modify data effectively with the latest T-SQL featuresMaster Transact-SQL's fundamentals, and write correct, robust code for querying and modifying data with modern Microsoft data technologies, including SQL Server 2022, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance. Long-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP Itzik Ben-Gan explains key T-SQL concepts, helping you apply your knowledge wit

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Using Flume: Stream Data Into Hdfs and Hbase

Hari Shreedharan

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Looking to use Apache Flume to stream data to Hadoop? This complete reference guide shows operations engineers how to configure, deploy, and monitor a Flume cluster, and teaches developers how to write Flume plugins and custom components to their specific use-cases.

"Using Flume" describes the rich set of features that enable you to write data in any format supported by the Hadoop Distributed File
Machine Learning for Trading: A disciplined workflow from research to live execution, with nine case studies and AI agents book cover96

Machine Learning for Trading: A disciplined workflow from research to live execution, with nine case studies and AI agents

Stefan Jansen

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Build and deploy AI-driven trading systems using the 7-Stage workflow with pandas, Polars, LightGBM, PyTorch, Optuna, zipline-reloaded, MLflow, Feast, and SHAPKey FeaturesBuild point-in-time pipelines, integrate alternative data, and ensure data integrityBuild and validate predictive models using GBMs, Transformers, and causal inference frameworks to create robust, interpretable alpha signalsDeplo

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DAX Formulas for PowerPivot: The Excel Pro's Guide to Mastering DAX

Rob Collie

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Microsoft PowerPivot is a free add-on to Excel from Microsoft that allows users to produce new kinds of reports and analyses that were simply impossible before, and this book is the first to tackle DAX formulas, the core capability of PowerPivot, from the perspective of the Excel audience. Written by the world’s foremost PowerPivot blogger and practitioner, the book’s concepts and approach are int
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Programming Hive

Edward Capriolo, Dean Wampler, Jason Rutherglen

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Need to move a relational database application to Hadoop? This comprehensive guide introduces you to Apache Hive, Hadoop’s data warehouse infrastructure. You’ll quickly learn how to use Hive’s SQL dialect—HiveQL—to summarize, query, and analyze large datasets stored in Hadoop’s distributed filesystem.

This example-driven guide shows you how to set up and configure Hive in your environment, provides
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Uncharted: Big Data and an Emerging Science of Human History

Erez Aiden, Jean-Baptiste Michel

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One of the greatest untapped resources of today isn’t offshore oil or natural gas—it’s data. Gigabytes, exabytes (that’s one quintillion bytes) of data are sitting on servers across the world. So how can we start to access this explosion of information, this “big data,” and what can it tell us?

Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel are two young scientists at Harvard who started to ask those questio
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Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with pandas, NumPy, and Jupyter

Wes McKinney

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