31  Bibliography

The following is a list of books and online resources that we will use during the course.

31.1 SQL (Structured Query Language)

• online resources:

  • https://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp
  • https://www.sqlzoo.net/wiki/SQL_Tutorial

• Books - don’t buy these (yet):

  • Murach’s MySQL (4th Edition)
    by Joel Murach
    20 chapters, 648 pages, 266 figures
    Published November 2023
    ISBN 978-1-943873-10-4
    publisher: https://www.murach.com/shop/murach-s-mysql-4th-edition-detail amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Murachs-MySQL-Reference-Joel-Murach/dp/B0CHMPQ3FC

  • SQL QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide
    to Managing, Analyzing, and Manipulating Data With SQL
    (QuickStart Guides™ - Technology)
    by Walter Shields (Author) Paperback
    November 18, 2019

31.2 R and tidyverse

• R 4 Data Science, 2nd edition (R4DS) by Hadly Wickham

  • Free to read online: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/
  • Purchase hardcopy: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Transform-Visualize-Model/dp/1492097403/

• Unofficial r4ds solution manual - https://jrnold.github.io/r4ds-exercise-solutions/

• tidyverse packages - https://www.tidyverse.org/packages/

  • tibble https://tibble.tidyverse.org/

  • readr https://readr.tidyverse.org/

    • read_csv(): comma-separated values (CSV)
    • read_tsv(): tab-separated values (TSV)
    • read_csv2(): semicolon-separated values with , as the decimal mark
    • read_delim(): delimited files (CSV and TSV are important special cases)
    • read_fwf(): fixed-width files
    • read_table(): whitespace-separated files
    • read_log(): web log files

  • dplyr

    • https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/
    • https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/dplyr.html

  • stringr

  • tidyr https://tidyr.tidyverse.org/

  • Other tidyverse packages

    • ggplot https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/

31.3 Various topics - bash command line, html, css, regular expressions (regex)

• https://ryanstutorials.net/
  • https://ryanstutorials.net/html-tutorial/
  • https://ryanstutorials.net/css-tutorial/
  • https://ryanstutorials.net/regular-expressions-tutorial/

31.4 Bash command line

• A Comprehensive Introduction to Command Line for R Users
  • https://blog.rsquaredacademy.com/command-line-basics-for-r-users/
• Using the RStudio Terminal
  • https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/115010737148-Using-the-RStudio-Terminal
  • https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/articles/115010737148-Using-the-RStudio-Terminal-in-the-RStudio-IDE
• https://ryanstutorials.net/
  • https://ryanstutorials.net/linuxtutorial/
  • https://ryanstutorials.net/bash-scripting-tutorial/
• linux man pages - describes commands you can use in Bash
  • https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_1.html
• vim text editor
  • https://www.openvim.com/
  • https://linuxconfig.org/vim-tutorial