- R for Data Science by Wickham & Grolemund. The main reference for the course (although we will not use dplyr).
- The Art of R Programming by Matloff. A general reference on R programming.
- Storytelling with Data by Knaflic. A reference on how to design statistical graphics.
- Data Manipulation with R by Spector.
- Data Science in R by Nolan & Temple Lang.
- Computational and Inferential Thinking by Adhikari & DeNero. The textbook for UC Berkeley's lower-div data science class.
- ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Wickham. The official reference for ggplot2.
- R Graphics Cookbook (library) by Chang. Examples for ggplot2.
- R Graph Gallery. Examples of graphs you can make in R, with code.
- R Data Visualization Cheat Sheets.
- The Elements of Graphing Data by Cleveland. This is a classic about how to design graphics.
- Visualizing Data by Cleveland. Another classic, about how to choose the right graphic for your data. Complements "The Elements of Graphing Data".
- Color Oracle, a free colorblindness simulator for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
- Emery's Essentials, a web app to help you choose the right graphic.
- Color Brewer 2, a web app to help you choose colors.
- Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Williams & Bizup.
- Google Documentation Style Guide
- OpenIntro Statistics by OpenIntro.
- Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation by OpenIntro.
- Introduction to Statistical Learning by James, Witten, Hastie & Tibshirani. About machine learning. A gentler introduction than The Elements.
- The Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani, & Friedman. About machine learning. A more detailed introduction than ISLR.
- STS 98 Lecture Notes. Lots of examples of making plots.
- The R Inferno by Burns. About the difficult and confusing parts of R.
- Berkeley's STA 133 Lecture Notes.
- RStudio Cheat Sheets.
- FlowingData
- FiveThirtyEight
- The Guardian Data Blog
- ProPublica's Nerd Blog
- BuzzFeed Datasets & Code
- Information is Beautiful
- I Quant NY
- Visualizing Urban Data
- Computational Story Lab
- The Pudding
- R Weekly. About R.
- R-bloggers. About R.
- Hacker News. About the tech industry.
- Data Tau. About the data science industry.
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