Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist
Diana Walstad
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Malcolm Gladwell and Hachette Audio
4.5 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again
Jeffrey E. Young , Janet S. Klosko , et al.
4.6 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
4.8 on Amazon
4 HN comments
The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations
Robert Livingston
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It
Kelly McGonigal
4.6 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data
Jake VanderPlas
4.6 on Amazon
4 HN comments
The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer
4.6 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen and Hachette Audio
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook (The Long-Form Math Textbook Series)
Jay Cummings
4.7 on Amazon
4 HN comments
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
Leslie Kean and John Podesta
4.5 on Amazon
3 HN comments
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg
4.6 on Amazon
3 HN comments
How To Brew: Everything You Need to Know to Brew Great Beer Every Time
John J. Palmer
4.8 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Thinking Mathematically: Integrating Arithmetic & Algebra in Elementary School
Thomas P Carpenter , Megan Loef Franke, et al.
4.7 on Amazon
3 HN comments
Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking
Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett
4.4 on Amazon
3 HN comments
schnirzonNov 22, 2016
From a business perspective, I personally found Data Science for Business to be surprisingly useful.
lastofusonDec 21, 2017
I personally got way more value and insight out of "Data Science for Business" and would highly recommend it.
heynickconOct 8, 2015
Something that stood out to me was their discussion about "Big Data technologies" (Hadoop, HBase...) and how they "support" data mining techniques. So sometimes I wonder if big data technologies are more for the processing of the data, like the ETL needed for data warehouses - but since it's big, we need those special technologies to process it (and do additional data-sciencey things on it - like calculate a probability of churn, probability of loan default, etc). End results can still be those high-performance in-memory objects that we can slice and dice, just like our data warehouses, if that's how we need to see them.
This is all coming from no practical experience with Hadoop / Big Data, just research so hopefully someone clarifies :)