Data Science

Discover data science titles selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists. In Syndetics Unbound, RCL Librarians recommend a selection of the 90,000+ titles available at rclweb.net.

Updated January 9, 2024
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The 9 pitfalls of data science
Smith, Gary
Ebook
Data science has never had more influence on the world. Large companies are now seeing the benefit of employing data scientists to interpret the vast amounts of data that now exists. However, the field is so new and is evolving so rapidly that the analysis produced can be haphazard at best. ...
Dark data : why what you don't know matters
Hand, D. J.
Ebook
A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing data In the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are never complete, and may be only the tip of the iceberg. Just as...
Data feminism
D'Ignazio, Catherine
Paper Book
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate,...
Data Science
Paper Book
It has never been easier for organizations to gather, store, and process data. Use of data science is driven by the rise of big data and social media, the development of high-performance computing, and the emergence of such powerful methods for data analysis and modeling as deep learning. Data...
Data science using Python and R
Larose, Chantal D.
Ebook
Learn data science by doing data science!  Data Science Using Python and R will get you plugged into the world's two most widespread open-source platforms for data science: Python and R. Data science is hot. Bloomberg called data...
Data smart : using data science to transform information into insight
Foreman, John W.
Ebook
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...
Digital geographies
Ash, James
Paper Book
As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include: the production of space, spatiality and...
Our Data, Ourselves : A Personal Guide to Digital Privacy
Lipton, Jacqueline D.
Ebook
A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy.   Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common and crucial question: What can we as private individuals do to protect our personal information in a...
Practical statistics for data scientists 50+ essential concepts using R and Python
Bruce, Peter C.
Paper Book
Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The second edition of this popular guide adds comprehensive examples in Python, provides...
Queer data : using gender, sex and sexuality data for action
Guyan, Kevin
Ebook

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