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A Programmer's Guide to Data Mining

A guide to practical data mining, collective intelligence, and building recommendation systems

Unix one-liners

Some great tips here.

Explain shell

A cool way to visualize the components of complex unix commands. Very useful.

Statistical Formulas for Programmers

Potentially a useful resource. 

What Beer Would You Like? Building a Recommendation System in Python

A nice little ipython notebook with some data and examples for building simple recommender systems in python

How Python became the language of choice for data science

A good read giving perspective on other language choices for doing data science.