There are two goals to this page:

  1. Help MAS-DSE students brush up on material needed for their courses . (items arked with BU)
  2. Provide students with references to useful background material.

Math

Linear Algebra

Khan Academy

Linear Algebra Reference

Probability and statistics

Programming

Python

Python Books

Python Reference

Some useful Python libraries

Pandas

Unix

DataBases

BU Online course on Databases
an excellent self paced online course from Stanford’s database lab. Please make sure to cover at least the mini-courses entitled

  • Introduction and Relational Databases
  • SQL, and
  • Relational Algebra

Git

Jupyter / IPython

Spark

Spark Overview

Spark Reference

Spark-SQL

Spark Notebook collections