Here is selection containing both external and internal papers, focusing on various technical aspects of data science and big data. Feel free to add your favorites.

Complex Open Text Analysis: Source: Avinash Kaushik

External Papers

1. Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
2. A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning
3. Random Forests
4. A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks
5. Map-Reduce for Machine Learning on Multicore
6. Pasting Small Votes for Classification in Large Databases and On-Line
7. Recommendations Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering
8. Recursive Deep Models for Semantic Compositionality Over a Sentimen...
9. Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
10. Megastore: Providing Scalable, Highly Available Storage for Interac...
11. F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales
12. APACHE DRILL: Interactive Ad-Hoc Analysis at Scale
13. A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems
14. Top 10 algorithms on Data mining
15. The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web
16. MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
17. The Google File System
18. Amazon's Dynamo

DSC Internal Papers

1. How to detect spurious correlations, and how to find the ...
2. Automated Data Science: Confidence Intervals
3. 16 analytic disciplines compared to data science
4. From the trenches: 360-degree data science
5. 10 types of regressions. Which one to use?
6. Practical illustration of Map-Reduce (Hadoop-style), on real data
7. Jackknife logistic and linear regression for clustering and predict...
8. A synthetic variance designed for Hadoop and big data
9. Fast Combinatorial Feature Selection with New Definition of Predict...
10. Internet topology mapping
11. 11 Features any database, SQL or NoSQL, should have
12. 10 Features all Dashboards Should Have
13. Clustering idea for very large datasets
14. Hidden decision trees revisited
15. Correlation and R-Squared for Big Data
16. What Map Reduce can't do
17. Excel for Big Data
18. Fast clustering algorithms for massive datasets
19. The curse of big data
20. Interesting Data Science Application: Steganography