Amazon Top 20 Books in Data Mining by Matthew Mayo.
Matthew’s bio says:
Bio: Matthew Mayo is a computer science graduate student currently working on his thesis parallelizing machine learning algorithms. He is also a student of data mining, a data enthusiast, and an aspiring machine learning scientist.
So, puzzle me this:
- Why does this listicle have “Data Science From Scratch: First Principles with Python” by Joel Grus, listed twice?
- Why does David Pogue’s “iPhone: The Missing Manual” appear in this list?
“Data Science From Scratch: First Principles with Python” appears twice because one is paperback and the other is Kindle. Amazon treats those as separate subjects for sales purposes, although to a reader they are more likely a single subject, which has several formats.
The appearance of “iPhone: The Missing Manual” in this listing is a category error.
If you want to generate unproofed listicles of bestsellers, start with the Amazon best http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Books-Computers-Technology/zgbs/books/5/ref=zg_bs_unv_b_2_549646_1seller link for computer science or choose one of its many sub-categories such as data mining.
The measure of a listicle isn’t how easy it was to generate but how useful it is to the targeted community.
Duplication and irrelevant results detract from the usefulness of a listicle.
Yes?