Brushup and reference resources

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

• BU Gilbert Strang / Linear Algebra An excellent introduction to Linear Algebra. Check out the Videos!

Khan Academy

• BU Linear algebra on Khan Academy
• BU Eigen-everything on Khan Academy

Linear Algebra Reference

• BU Linear Algebra Review and Reference

Probability and statistics

• BU OpenIntro Statistics
• BU Think Stats/Probability and Statistics for Programmers by Allen B. Downey

Programming

Python

Python Books

• BU Interactive Python An interactive book: you do the excercises right inside the online book.
• BU Introduction to computer science and programming using python An excellent book, and an excellent MOOC based on that book.
• BU Dive Into Python

Python Reference

• The Python Language Reference — Python v2.7.6 documentation

Some useful Python libraries

• Python Regular Expressions
• matplotlib: python plotting — documentation
• numpy

Pandas

• PANDAS: Python Data Analysis Library
• Pandas and Python: Top 10 - Curiosity
• Book: Python for Data Analysis (Pandas)

Unix

• BU Introduction to Linux: Slides Caroline Sporleder & Ines Rehbein and Book / Machtelt Garrels

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

• Become a Git Guru: Atlassian Git Tutorial

Jupyter / IPython

• IPython documentation
• ipython magics
• jupyter extensions configurator The best way to add and manage ipython notebook extensions.
• ipython/ipython/help - Gitter

Spark

Spark Overview

• Overview - Spark Documentation
• Online Guide: Spark Programming Guide
  • python examples are available in the spark github repository
• Book: Learning Spark
  • Github Repository for for book(python examples)
• Mooc: Big Data Analysis using Spark
• Spark using Scala Slides (Databricks)

Spark Reference

• spark Python API Docs
• spark Scala API
• apache spark tutorial (tutorialPoint)
• Spark Cheat-Sheets (DZone)

Spark-SQL

• pyspark.sql DataFrame documentation
• Spark Python API Docs!
• Complete Guide to DataFrame Operations in PySpark
• Supported syntax of Spark SQL
• Using SQL and User-Defined Functions with Spark DataFrames

Spark Notebook collections

• Jose A. Dianes