Friday, November 24, 2017

Azure Databricks for Apache Spark

Databricks are founders of Apache Spark, open source big data cluster computing framework.

A technical overview of Azure Databricks | Blog | Microsoft Azure

"Azure Databricks, an exciting new service in preview that brings together the best of the Apache Spark analytics platform and Azure cloud."

Foundations of Data Science, textbook & lectures

math-heavy

Foundations of Data Science - Lecture 1 | Microsoft Research | Channel 9


"Modern data often consists of feature vectors with a large number of features. High-dimensional geometry and Linear Algebra (Singular Value Decomposition) are two of the crucial areas which form the mathematical foundations of Data Science. This mini-course covers these areas, providing intuition and rigorous proofs. Connections between Geometry and Probability will be brought out. Text Book: Foundations of Data Science."

book: Foundations of Data Science, June 14, 2017.pdf (450 pages)

by John E. Hopcroft, Avrim Blum and Ravi Kannan


Runestone Interactive tools & textbooks (!!)

Runestone Interactive

About Runestone Interactive
  • Provide great online interactive textbooks for free 
  • Provide open source authoring tools for creating and hosting quality interactive learning resources. 
  • Host custom versions of textbooks for colleges, universities, and high schools around the world.


Runestone Interactive Titles
The Runestone Interactive tools create compelling interactive learning resources used by hundreds of Colleges, Universities, and High Schools around the world.

How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition


How to Think Like a Computer Scientist — How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 3

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python — Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures




Related:

https://developers.google.com/blockly/