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Notes, Resources and more relating to Data Science

Blogs/Posts/Articles 📃 link

• TidyverseSkeptic - An opinionated view of the Tidyverse "dialect" of the R language. link
• Resources for learning about the history of statistics and statisticians. link
• R-Tips-and-Tricks - solution to R newbie problems I encountered. Mainly mapping and tidyverse stuff. link

Data Wrangling link

data.table

• data.table workshop - introduction to, as well as some hands-on experience in using, the data.table package in R. link
• Data.TableTutorial - A tutorial on the data.table package link

Learning Resources link

Resources

• Free data science resources - Thematic list of high-quality data science resources link
• Data Science Learning Resources - A collection of data science and machine learning resources that I've found helpful (I only post what I've read!) link
• Microsoft - Time Series Forecasting Best Practices & Examples link
• Awesome R Learning Resources - collection of free resources to help deepen your understanding of the R programming language. link
• Awesome R - A curated list of awesome R packages and tools link

Courses

• Grant McDermott - Data science for economists link
• Richard McElreath - Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition) link
• ECON 5253: Data Science for Economists link
• Economics 421: Introduction to Econometrics (Winter 2021) link
• Empirical Economics with R link
• Open Source Society University (OSSU) - Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science! link
• Open Source Society University (OSSU) - Path to a free self-taught education in Data Science! link
• The Open Source Data Science Masters link
• rstats-ed - List of courses teaching R link

Cheatsheet

• VIP cheatsheets for Stanford's CS 229 Machine Learning link
• A comprehensive 10-page probability cheatsheet that covers a semester's worth of introduction to probability. link
• Data Science Cheatsheet link
• Data Science Cheatsheet 2.0 link

Conference/Workshops

• Why R? 2020 remote Workshops link
• user2020! Causal Inference in R Workshop link

Packages 📦 link

• Google abpackage - An R package for AB testing leveraging pre-period information link
• Google CausalImpact - An R package for causal inference in time series link
• rspivot - Shiny gadget for RStudio for viewing data frames. link

Shiny

• Awesome Shiny Extensions - R packages that offer extended UI or server components for the R web framework Shiny link
• Awesome R Shiny - An awesome R-shiny list! link
• CalCAT - California COVID Assessment Tool link
• Spotify Habits - Shiny App to visualize and analyse your listening habits link

Books 📚 link

• R Books - A curated list of rstats books link
• Think Bayes - an introduction to Bayesian statistics using computational methods. link

Datasets link

• ladata - A collection of datasets on Latin America link
• The Economist - multilevel Bayesian model to predict US presidential elections. link
• LA Times - Datadesk - All of our computational notebooks link
• fivethirtyeight - R package of data and code behind the stories and interactives at FiveThirtyEight link
• fivethirtyeight Data - Data and code behind the articles and graphics at FiveThirtyEight link
• Buzzfeed - link
• Jeff Sackmann - Point-by-point data for Grand Slams, 2011-current 🎾 link