I appreciate that on HN this article may provoke intelligent conversation, but this article is smells a lot like a "top N things you need right now" blog post where everything is an Amazon affiliate link.
(Edit: I was wrong about affiliate links. Not deleting to publically self-shame.)
The real data science would be producing articles like this automatically, and with good SEO, to drive revenue.
The list is OK. I've studied ISL (and some of ESL). A friend really enjoyed Think Stats. Charles Wheelan's book is in the same vein as How To Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff?) but in greater depth.
I started with R because that's what my team was mostly using when I got into this area. Hadley Wickham's free books are good too.
(Edit: I was wrong about affiliate links. Not deleting to publically self-shame.)
The real data science would be producing articles like this automatically, and with good SEO, to drive revenue.
The list is OK. I've studied ISL (and some of ESL). A friend really enjoyed Think Stats. Charles Wheelan's book is in the same vein as How To Lie With Statistics (Darrell Huff?) but in greater depth.
I started with R because that's what my team was mostly using when I got into this area. Hadley Wickham's free books are good too.