My Bookmarks

This page holds links to some of the better pages I’ve come across. It’s easy to capture links (Pocket, OneNote, Evernote, etc.) The problem is finding the good links when you want them. If I put them on my website, I know where they are, and maybe it will help others.

A Note On Free Books

I’m not the biggest fan of PDF books. I find paper copies to be superior in every way except portability. However, not everyone has accesss to a research library, and not everyone has a high salary, so the need to buy books leads to a massive gap in opportunities. There are also some books with ridiculous price tags (in some cases, more than $200) and you’d have to be (a) desperate or (b) an idiot to pay that much for a book.

Economics

Older macro notes by Per Krusell

Older macro notes by Doepke, Lehnert and Sellgren

Macro textbook by Garin, Lester, and Sims

Statistics

The classic book Bayesian Data Analysis is now online. The book itself isn’t that expensive (around $50 hardcover the last I checked), but not everyone has access to a research library or a high salary. What I like about that link is the videos, notes, and examples.

Hadley Wickham makes some of his books available online. To be honest, I tend to stick to base R for the most part, but he’s added tons of functionality to R that many others have found useful. A more introductory book is R for Data Science. If you’re serious about learning the R programming language, you’ll want to work through his Advanced R book.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning and The Elements of Statistical Learning.

Course notes on optimization for machine learning and Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences.

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