Things in Data Science 2015–11

Apache Spark Machine Learning Tutorial
Informative tutorial that walks us through using Spark’s machine learning capabilities and Scala to train a logistic regression classifier on a larger-than-memory dataset.
by Dmitry Petrov

60+ Free books on Bg Data, Data Science, Data Mining, …
Here is a great collection of eBooks written on the topics of Data Science, Business Analytics, Data Mining, Big Data, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Data Science Tools, and Programming Languages for Data Science. by Brendan Martin

Advanced Jupyter Notebook Tricks — Part 1
Worth reading to know about “Magics”: it allows to use multiple languages in a single notebook. In particular, with rmagic you can mix multiple python with R.