Top 10 Essential Books for the Data Enthusiast

The true data enthusiast has a lot to read about: big data, machine learning, data science, data mining, etc. Besides these technology domains, there are also specific implementations and languages to consider and keep up on: Hadoop, Spark, Python, and R, to name a few, not to mention the myriad tools for automating the various aspects of our professional lives which seem to pop up on a daily basis. There are a lot of topics to keep abreast of. There are a lot of lists available of the top books in particular categories related to data. In fact, KDnuggets has previously, and rather recently, put together such lists on data mining, databases & big data, statistics, AI & machine learning, and neural networks.