Useful computational ressources
Machine learning
The Elements of Statistical Learning
(General introduction to machine learning)
https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning
(Extremely useful tools for nonparametric Bayesian modeling)
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/
Deep Learning
(The theory and implementation of neural nets)
https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Reinforcement learning - An introduction
(Adaptive learning for Markov decision problems)
http://www.incompleteideas.net/book/RLbook2018.pdf
Algorithms
(Introduction to the theory of algorithms)
http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/
The Ethical Algorithm
(How to impose normative constraints on ML and other algorithms)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-ethical-algorithm-9780190948207
Programming in R
An Introduction to R
(Complete introduction to base R)
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.pdf
R for Data Science
(Introduction to data analysis using R, focused on the tidyverse packages)
http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
Advanced R
(In depth discussion of programming in R)
https://adv-r.hadley.nz/
Hands-On Machine Learning with R
(Fitting ML models in R)
https://bradleyboehmke.github.io/HOML/
Bayesian statistics using Stan
https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/wiki/RStan-Getting-Started
https://mc-stan.org/docs/2_20/stan-users-guide/index.html
RStudio Cheat Sheets
(for various extensions, including data processing, visualization, writing web apps, …)
https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/
Programming interactive R-apps using Shiny
https://shiny.rstudio.com/articles/
Training neural nets using Keras and Tensorflow
https://tensorflow.rstudio.com/keras/
Data visualization
Data Visualization - A Practical Introduction
(Textbook on data visualization, using ggplot2)
http://socviz.co/
ggplot2 - Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
(R-package for data vizualization)
http://moderngraphics11.pbworks.com/f/ggplot2-Book09hWickham.pdf
A Layered Grammar of Graphics
(The theory behind ggplot2)
https://byrneslab.net/classes/biol607/readings/wickham_layered-grammar.pdf
An Economist’s Guide to Visualizing Data
(Guidelines for good visualizations)
https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.28.1.209
Typesetting
The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX
https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
Markdown
(a lightweight markup language)
https://www.markdownguide.org/
Setting up a webpage using Jekyll and Github pages
(Such as this webpage)
- Getting started: https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/building-static-sites-with-jekyll-github-pages
- The minimal-mistakes theme: https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/quick-start-guide/
Version control
Git and Github for R
https://happygitwithr.com/
Git and Github, in depth
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2