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Notes

A list of useful links, currently maintained by @daviddao

Big Data Processing with Apache Spark

Apache Spark Tutorial This is a great mini course provided by the AMPLab in Berkeley. It introduces how to set up a spark server, use MLLib and Shark.

Databricks Databricks is a company founded by members from AMPLab to commercialize Apache Spark. It has a great quick summary and explanation about the main buzzwords of Data Science.

Using IntelliJ for Development Great screencast on how to develop in Scala with IntelliJ for Apache Spark and its Open Source Products

Cloudera's Spark Tutorial A detailed webcast for Spark provided by Cloudera

Data Science Courses

Harvard Data Science Course CS109 , Harvard Data Science Course is taught well, slides are great and teacher are motivating

GA Data Science Course A great collection of readings and lectures from general assembly

Data Science Course 2012 This Data Science course is taught by Jeff Hammerbacher, Founder and CEO of Cloudera. Try 'datascience' as password for the online lectures.

Data Science Course 2014 Exercise and Lab Course for the 2014 Data Science Course by Berkeley

Mining massive data sets Great tutorial/book about mining massive data focused on graph algorithms. A online course is also provided here

Nate Silver's Blog Nate Silver is arguably the most famous data scientist in the world. In his blog, he will write a lot about stuff he analyzed with data science methods

Scala

Coursera Course Interesting course about functional programming by the inventor of Scala.

Scala for Java Developers A detailed introduction to Scala for Java Developers

First steps to Scala A easy and fun first steps in Scala introduction.

Python

Google Edu A course for experienced developers, teaching only what is necessary for python

Database

Reading List This is a reading list for graduate students of database in berkeley. It contains all the important links to whitepapers from google, berkeley and co.

Condensed Reading List This is a condensed reading list for database systems by rxin.

Node.js and JavaScript

Art of Node The Art of Node from maxodgen is a great tutorial for node beginners!

JavaScript Garden Currently maintained by Tim Ruffles, this site collects all interesting stuff about JavaScript

Faster than C Great story about the struggle of a developer to design high-performance JavaScript Code

Data Visualization

mbostock's D3 Workshop 150 great slides from the inventor of D3

D3 Tutorial Great tutorial by Scott Murray about D3. Interactive, simpler than mbostocks tutorial and beautiful made.

Tools for Data Visualization Collection of DataVis Tools for the Web

CS171 Great Course of Harvard describing the principles of data visualization using D3.

Online Learning

Coursera Hundreds of free online courses from universities from all over the world

Udacity More technical tutorials which are more focused on daily life development skills. Coursematerial is free.

edX Coursera on steroids (regarding the GUI)

Stanford Online Courses from Stanford

CodeSchool Useful webdevelopment skills and great tutorials. First lecture is always free.

Codecademy Great and lovely introduction to Python, Javascript, Ruby and so on. A must see!

MongoUniversity Tutorials about using MongoDB with certificate for Java, Node Developers and co.

Iversity Mostly german online courses, however all for free

Canvas Network Online courses offered by individuals

Khan academy Great online courses by Khan. Great teacher, new technology and easy to understand. A variety of topics are covered