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Page last edited by Sune Lehmann Jørgensen (sljo) 03/02-2014
About textbooks
This year, the course will not have one single textbook, but will draw inspiration from a number of different textbooks. I've listed the ones that I'm considering below. We will be making pdf versions of the parts we're using available here as the course progresses. Below, the books are divided into groups by topic. The titles in bold are the central texts.
 
Machine Learning
  • Programming Collective Intelligence (O'Reilly 2007). Toby Segaran.
  • Machine Learning for Hackers (O'Reilly 2012). Drew Conway and John Myles White.
Data Analysis
  • Data Analysis with Open Source Tools (O'Reilly 2011). Philipp K. Janert.
  • Python for Data Analysis (O'Reilly 2012). Wes McKinney.
  • Think Stats (O'Reilly 2011). Allen B. Downey.

Network Analysis

  • Networks, Crowds, and Markets. Reasoning about a Highly Connected World (Cambridge University Press 2012). David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. [Free Online]
  • Social Network Analysis for Startups (0'Reilly 2011). Maksim Tsvetovat and Alexander Kouznetsov.
  • Think Complexity (O'Reilly 2012). Allen B. Downey.
Natural Language Processing
  • Natural Language Processing with Python (O'Reilly 2009). Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper. [Free Online]
API's etc
  • Mining the Social Web 2nd Edition (O'Reilly 2013). Matthew A. Russell
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