20 short tutorials all data scientists should read (and practice)

The new, completed version of this Data Science Cheat Sheet can be found here.

We are now at 20, up from 17. I hope I find the time to write a one-page survival guide for UNIX, Python and Perl. Here's one for R. The links to core data science concepts are below - I need to add links to web crawling, attribution modeling and API design. Relevancy engines are discussed in some of the tutorials listed below. And that will complete my 10-page cheat sheet for data science.

Here's the list:

Other Cheat Sheets

Vincent's Cheat Sheets for Perl, R, Excel (includes Linest, Vlookup), Linux, cron jobs, gzip, ftp, putty, regular expressions, Cygwin, pipe operators, files management, dashboard design etc. coming soon

Cheat Sheets for Python

Python: www.astro.up.pt/~sousasag/Python_For_Astronomers/Python_qr.pdf
NumPy, SciPy and Pandas: s3.amazonaws.com/quandl-static-content/Documents/Quandl+-+Pandas,+S...

Cheat Sheets for R

Short Reference Card cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf
R Functions for Regression Analysis cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-regression.pdf
Time Series cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Ricci-refcard-ts.pdf
Data Mining cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/YanchangZhao-refcard-data-mining.pdf
Quandl s3.amazonaws.com/quandl-static-content/Documents/Quandl+-+R+Cheat+S...

Cross Reference between R, Python (and Matlab)

mathesaurus.sourceforge.net/matlab-python-xref.pdf

Cheat Sheets for SQL

SQL Joins www.codeproject.com/Articles/33052/Visual-Representation-of-SQL-Joins
SQL and Hive hortonworks.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/Hortonworks.Ch...

Additional

Cheat Sheets for Java introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/11cheatsheet/
Linux Cheat Sheet www.linuxstall.com/linux-command-line-tips-that-every-linux-user-sh...

Related link: The Data Science Toolkit

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Comment by mathieu thelot on June 16, 2016 at 9:48am: Broken link on SQL and hive

hortonworks.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/Hortonworks.Ch...

Comment by Greg Slawek on March 15, 2016 at 6:03pm: Broken link - clicked on "Here's one for R."

Our apologies – this page was not found

Can we get an updated link there?

Comment by Mary James on February 16, 2016 at 1:11am: Thank you for the great resources that help researchers in their projects.

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Comment by Brad Kolarov on January 26, 2016 at 10:59am: Vince, this is great for aspiring data scientists! I think it is a great resource! Something else I have found beneficial that lets me focus on my data rather than spinning up the analytic stacks is a tool called Stackspace. Its in beta, but has save me a ton of time!

Comment by Jianhua/Jason Li on November 19, 2015 at 10:15am: cool. Thanks.

Comment by Vineet Berlia on June 13, 2015 at 1:17pm: Awsome collection. Thanks Vincent.

Comment by Parmod Kumar on May 24, 2015 at 7:19pm: Thanks for sharing this!

Comment by Godwin Iferi on February 19, 2015 at 12:11pm: Absolutely great resource. l find this helpful!

Comment by Egidio Ndabagoye on November 4, 2014 at 8:44pm: Thanks Vincent.This is very informative

Comment by Linda B. on May 29, 2014 at 5:23am: I appreciate you taking time to post these cheat sheets. They are a great resource for newbies like myself.