Data science techniques, and some suggested reading in the footnotes.
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/40-techniques-used-by-data-scientists
and a link from the DCC site, for learning Python for data science
http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2016/01/complete-tutorial-learn-data-science-python-scratch-2/
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