Book recommendations

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What books would you recommend reading for someone starting in the field? It can be historic, autobiographic, etc., regarding Parkinson’s but also can be Experiment design, Bioethics, Data analysis

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Not a book, but a new article in Nature with 7 tips for sharing data.

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A few thoughts:

  • Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan – this was good for me as someone who had studied calculus and economics but never stats; less technical, more useful in communicating effectively around stats.
  • Trite thought it may be, my first awareness of Parkinson’s was from Awakenings by Oliver Sacks – his biography is one of my favorite books, and I found his empathetic writing about science and ability to convey complex topics to lay audiences without stripping away meaning to be on par with Richard Feynman or Siddhartha Mukherjee.
  • This intro data science course link and this slightly more advanced one (link) focused on Python come recommended and are both heavily on sale right now – I’m thinking of taking them myself :wink: – if you want other data sci/py recommendations let me know and I can pull some together!

Would be curious what others think, especially those on faculty such as @fbbriggs of @gdp22?

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Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (ePub available here open access: Data Feminism) helped me to think through several topics related to data sharing.
One thing I took away was rethinking how we create speaker and author bios to express the positionality and experience of the person being described so that it is a more rounded description than just listing their academic achievements. We’ve experimented with this when doing in-classroom introductions to highlight the backgrounds of trainers and how that relates to their interest and expertise about the topic of the class.

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I like to check out various blogs for new data science books, here is two that I recently bookmarked: The 18 Best Data Science Books For Experts & Beginners
https://bookauthority.org/books/best-selling-data-science-books

Also, any introductory epidemiology book is a great resource to have (whatever is available at your library works!).

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