Reading List

I tend to read a lot of technical books. These lists are books I have read recently that are relevant to this blog.

###Data Mining/Machine Learning

• A First Course in Statistical Programming with R by W. John Braun, Duncan J. Murdoch
• Data Analysis with Open Source Tools by Philipp K. Janert
• Data Mining, Second Edition: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank
• Machine Learning for Hackers by Drew Conway, John Myles White
• Mahout in Action by Sean Owen, Robin Anil, Ted Dunning, Ellen Friedman
• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran
• Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender
• Graph Databases by Ian Robinson, Jim Webber, and Emil Eifrem
• Agile Data Science: Building Data Analytics Applications with Hadoop by Russell Jurney

###Big Data/Cloud Computing

• Big Data by Nathan Marz
• Cassandra: The Definitive Guide by Eben Hewitt
• Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide by David S. Linthicu
• Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies) by Jimmy Lin
• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide by Tom White
• Pro Hadoop (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) by Jason Venner
• Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications by Binildas A. Christudas, Malhar Barai, Vincenzo Caselli
• I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration by Jay Kreps

###Security/Hacking/Forensics

• Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think by Andy Oram, John Viega
• Endpoint Security by Mark Kadrich
• Extrusion Detection: Security Monitoring for Internal Intrusions by Richard Bejtlich
• Hacking Exposed Linux, 3rd Edition by ISECOM
• Hacking: The Next Generation (Animal Guide) by Nitesh Dhanjani, Billy Rios, Brett Hardin
• Practical Intrusion Analysis: Prevention and Detection for the Twenty-First Century by Ryan Trost
• Security Log Management: Identifying Patterns in the Chaos by Jacob Babbin, Dave Kleiman, Everett F. Carter Jr., Jeremy Faircloth, Mark Burnett, Esteban Gutierrez
• SiLK Analyst Handbook (PDF)
• Network Security Through Data Analysis: Building Situational Awareness by Michael S Collins

###Security/Intel

• The Definitive Book of Body Language by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
• What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
• You Can Read Anyone by David J. Lieberman

###Python

• Python Phrasebook Brad Dayley

###Other

• Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Git in the Trenches by Peter Savage
• Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships by Daniel Goleman
• The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity by Tom Kelley