Data scientist and friend of the show Naveen Venkataraman is teaching an R programming workshop at the University of Chicago, and was kind enough to share some fantastic book recommendations -- both from the course and Naveen's professional experience. Check them out!
Programming and Intro books
- The Art of R Programming - Norman Matloff
- R for Everyone - Jared Lander
- R in Action, Second Edition - Rob Kabacoff
- The Quick Python Book, Second Edition - Naomi Ceder
- R Graphics Cookbook (ggplot2) - Winston Chang
- Advanced R - Hadley Wickham
Modeling
- Introduction to Statistical Learning (Fourth print) - Hastie, Tibshirani et al
- Applied Predictive Modeling - Kuhn and Johnson