Applied Data Science Analytics: Websites

Blogs, discussion forums and webcasts covering a wide array of analytics topics

Data Mining and Predictive Analytics is a blog providing tips, tricks, and comments in data mining and predictive analytics. Topics include data preprocessing, visualization, modeling, and model deployment. It is hosted by Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics, Inc.

Data Science Central is an online community for big data practitioners, ranging from Analytics to Data Integration to Visualization. The community experience includes a robust editorial platform, social interaction, forum-based technical support, the latest in technology, tools and trends and industry job opportunities.

FlowingData is a blog by Nathan Yau, which explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves. The site also offers courses, tutorials, books, and projects.

In the Making is the official blog of IBM Systems which is intended to be a platform for dialogue and a source of insight for IT infrastructure leaders and other key technology decision makers.

KDnuggets aggregates news, and provides links to software, jobs, conferences, datasets, and informative websites within the disciplines of Business Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, and Machine Learning.

Revolutions is a blog which provides daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization.

Code School teaches web technologies through your preferred browser, using video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts. Learning Paths include HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python, and more.

A YouTube playlist of video tutorials, from Google Developers, teaching R.

This blog post contains a number of different online courses and MOOCs for learning R.

Code Academy is a fun, hands-on way to learn web design. If you're feeling ambitious, you can also try your hand at Javascript, Ruby, PHP and other coding languages. And you earn badges! (Digital, not real)

Google's Python Class is a free class for people with a little bit of programming experience who want to learn Python. The class includes written materials, lecture videos, and lots of code exercises to practice Python coding.

This interactive book teaches you how to think like a computer scientist (combining the best features of mathematics, engineering, and natural science) through teaching Python.