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10 Books Data Scientists Should Read During Lockdown

If you work with data, these books will help you keep active and learning

Arthur Mello
Towards Data Science
5 min readApr 10, 2020

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Introduction

It’s been a few weeks now that the whole world is engaged in fighting the COVID-19 and most people have been locked down for a while. Even though most of us are still working from home, it’s quite easy to get bored during our free time, not sure what to watch next on Netflix.

Personally, I love reading, so I thought I’d recommend some books I’ve read lately that might be useful or entertaining for people who work with data. Some of them are more technical, while some are more amusing, but I’m sure you will find your cup of tea here.

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

I recommend this book not only for data scientists but for anyone interested in AI and in its future outcomes. For a book aiming for the general public, it spends a lot of time on the details of computer vision and how computers “think”, giving a clear and broad overview on the subject. It also talks about AI perspectives for the…

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Arthur Mello
Arthur Mello

Written by Arthur Mello

Data scientist and educator. I write about data analysis and machine learning applied to marketing. New workshop: https://www.instagram.com/ai.bootcamps/

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