favorites

A non-exhaustive, non-exclusive, and not-necessarily endorsing list of some of my favorite things

Books

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

No Starch Press A big fan of their style teaching code and machine learning concepts in a conversational, experiential manner.

Text-Books

Data Science

Chip Huyen - Great insights to ML at scale, online/evolving data and production

Rajistics - Some good videos about data science / ML and practical examples. I like that he highlights how to practice skills and shares stories from his experience.

Sports

bsctoys College football statistics and analysis done by Brian Fremeau

cfbtxt College football stats and vizualizations in a nice, machine-readable format for use in modeling. Done by dadgumboxscores

Data

Gridstatus.io Power markets database of public info that was hard to get in a single location until they came along. Good blog articles too.

Vizualization

Machine Learning University (MLU) educational blog by Amazon with some nice visuals and explainers on simple ML concepts.

General Programming

Dave Eddy - You Suck at Programming - Humorous series on bash scripting