Student Resources

Free Learning Materials for Classes

Our library has many of the books we use in classes and as references available online. 

• As a student you will have access to O'Reiley Safari books and Packt books.  Both are available through the CSU East Bay Library Database A-Z. 
• We also use online books from Bookdown, LeanPub, otexts, and LibreText.  And papers available from many sources, such as jstor, arxiv, PeerJ. 
• Students also have access to LinkedIn Learning.
  
  

Data and Software 

Open Source/Free Software Focus: R, RStudio, RStudio Cloud, R Notebooks, Markdown, SQL, Python, Julia, Jupyter Notebooks, Git and GitHub, Tableau, LibreOffice, Knime, Google CoLab, Google CoLab R

• Commercial Software Friendly: Microsoft Office Word, Excel (learn to sort, fliter, product pivot tables), PowerPoint,  SAS, Mintab, SPSS (The university has licenses for the full versions of SAS and Minitab that permit student use on their own computers.)
• Open Data Focus: kaggle, data.world, DataSF, lyft BayWheels, Chicago Data Portal, NHANES, Airline On-Time Statistics
• OS: Windows, macOS, ask about Linux, BSD, and cloud computing