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Reference materials

The following materials are recommended as supplemental reading.

Books

• R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham
• Python Data Science Handbook by Jake Vanderplas
• Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus Wilke

Articles

• PLoS Computational Biology Ten Simple Rules Collection: This entire collection is great, and includes advice for career development, graduate studies, and other useful topics. A few highlights relevant to this course include:
  • Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
  • Effective Computational Research
  • Reproducible Computational Research
  • Biologists Learning to Program
• A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects
• Good Enough Practices in Scientific Computing

Websites

• Stack Overflow: discussion forums for troubleshooting problems
• Git and GitHub help documentation
• Fred Hutch Data Science Wiki