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."

Introduction to Azure Databricks | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9

Get high-performance streaming analytics with Azure Databricks | Connect(); 2017 | Channel 9

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.

Overview of Runestone Interactive Tools — Runestone Interactive Overview

Runestone Interactive @ GitHub

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

1.3. The Python Programming Language — 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

Everyday Python: Iterating over Groups of Things — Runestone Interactive Overview

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