Books for Data Science

Learning the different concepts in data science can often feel like a daunting task. Here are 6 books to help lift the burden. This is an almost *exhaustive* book on machine learning topics ranging from the very basics of probability, to mixture models, to variational inference, to deep learning. Even though I first encountered this book as a companion textbook for a university course, I think calling this a textbook is doing it a disservice. It is basically an encyclopedia and can serve as a detailed reference for any data scientist or machine learning engineer.