r/datascience · 2021

Most-mentioned books in r/datascience during 2021

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/datascience within the published source unit for 2021. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2021

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Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

6 in 2021

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Aurélien Géron

Aurélien Géron's scikit-learn-to-TensorFlow book that data scientists recommend and interviewers weaponize in the same threads.

6 in 2021

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

3 in 2021

Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments

Ron Kohavi

A data scientist keeps one book on A/B testing on their desk for a job they don't have yet.

3 in 2021

Cracking the Coding Interview

Gayle Laakmann McDowell

The book credited with inventing the modern coding interview, argued about like it's also on trial for it.

2 in 2021

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann walks backend engineers through every database, queue, and consistency tradeoff they'll eventually get paged about.

2 in 2021

A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

Barbara Oakley

A woman who flunked high school math writes the study-skills book self-taught programmers keep citing to explain why a walk outside unsticks a hard problem.

1 in 2021

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

1 in 2021

Python Crash Course

Eric Matthes

A high school teacher gets tired of Python resources that assume too much, so he writes the one that doesn't.

1 in 2021

#10

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Six chapters into Scheme, you're writing an interpreter for a language you invented an hour ago.

1 in 2021

#11

The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan

Two authors write the book that becomes 'K&R,' and forty years later Reddit still uses it as shorthand for programmers who had to know everything themselves.

1 in 2021