Free Data Science Books (Update).
From the post:
Pulled from the web, here is a great collection of eBooks (most of which have a physical version that you can purchase on Amazon) written on the topics of Data Science, Business Analytics, Data Mining, Big Data, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Data Science Tools, and Programming Languages for Data Science.
While every single book in this list is provided for free, if you find any particularly helpful consider purchasing the printed version. The authors spent a great deal of time putting these resources together and I’m sure they would all appreciate the support!
Note: Updated books as of 9/21/15 are post-fixed with an asterisk (*). Scroll to updates
Great news but also more content.
Unlike big data, you have to read this content in detail to obtain any benefit from it.
And books in the same area are going to have overlapping content as well as some unique content.
Imagine how useful it would be to compose a free standing work with the “best” parts from several works.
Copyright laws would be a larger barrier but no more than if you cut-n-pasted your own version for personal use.
If such an approach could be made easy enough, the resulting value would drown out dissenting voices.
I think PDF is the principal practical barrier.
Do you suspect others?
I first saw this in a tweet by Kirk Borne.