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Top 5 GitHub Repositories for Data Science in 2026

Are you a data science enthusiast, a seasoned practitioner, or just starting your journey into this exciting field? 🤔

How are you learning? Paid courses? Bootcamps? 📚 Why not kickstart your learning with some of the best free data science resources available online? 🆓

GitHub is a treasure trove for open-source projects, learning resources, and curated data science repositories that can significantly boost your skills.

Here are my top 5 GitHub repositories that will help you master data science, from foundational concepts to hands-on projects. 💻

Remember, it's more important how much you code than how many repositories you know. The key is to apply what you learn!

5. Virgilio 🧠

Presenting a fantastic web-based guide for data science learners.
This repository is a meticulously compiled collection of theoretical resources, perfect for building a solid foundation in data science concepts.

GitHub logo virgili0 / Virgilio

Your new Mentor for Data Science E-Learning.

Virgilio is an open-source initiative, aiming to mentor and guide anyone in the world of the Data Science Our vision is to give everyone the chance to get involved in this field, get self-started as a practitioner, gain new skills and learn to navigate through the infinite web of resources and find the ones useful for you.

Find me on Twitter to have a chat!

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What is Virgilio?

Studying and reading through the Internet means swimming in an infinite jungle of chaotic information, even more so in rapidly changing innovative fields.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed when trying to approach Data Science without a real “path” to follow?

Are you tired of clicking “Run”, “Run”, “Run”.. on a Jupyter Notebook, with that false sense of confidence given by the comfort…

4. Python Data Science Handbook 📖

O'Reilly books are considered the gold standard in the data science community, and they rarely go on sale! 💎
But guess what? This repository contains the complete Python Data Science Handbook along with the code notebooks, making it an invaluable data science learning resource for anyone interested in Python.

GitHub logo jakevdp / PythonDataScienceHandbook

Python Data Science Handbook: full text in Jupyter Notebooks

Python Data Science Handbook

Binder Colab

This repository contains the entire Python Data Science Handbook, in the form of (free!) Jupyter notebooks.

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How to Use this Book

About

The book was written and tested with Python 3.5, though other Python versions (including Python 2.7) should work in nearly all cases.

The book introduces the core libraries essential for working with data in Python: particularly IPython, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, and related packages Familiarity with Python as a language is assumed; if you need a quick introduction to the language itself, see the free companion project, A

3. Awesome DataScience ✨

Who doesn't love a good cheatsheet? 🤩 This "awesome" repository acts as the ultimate data science cheatsheet, providing a curated list of distributed data, projects, tutorials, and other useful GitHub repositories for all things data science.
It’s the perfect place to find your next project or tutorial!

2. Notebooks for Data Science ✍️

Learning isn't just about reading theory—it’s about writing code!
This repository is a perfect solution, offering a comprehensive collection of data science IPython notebooks filled with hands-on examples and code to help you apply what you've learned.
Get ready to dive deep!

GitHub logo donnemartin / data-science-ipython-notebooks

Data science Python notebooks: Deep learning (TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe, Keras), scikit-learn, Kaggle, big data (Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS), matplotlib, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Python essentials, AWS, and various command lines.



data-science-ipython-notebooks

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deep-learning

IPython Notebook(s) demonstrating deep learning functionality.

tensor-flow-tutorials

Additional TensorFlow tutorials:






















































Notebook Description
tsf-basics Learn basic operations in TensorFlow, a library for various kinds of perceptual and language understanding tasks from Google.
tsf-linear Implement linear regression in TensorFlow.
tsf-logistic Implement logistic regression in TensorFlow.
tsf-nn Implement nearest neighboars in TensorFlow.
tsf-alex Implement AlexNet in TensorFlow.
tsf-cnn Implement convolutional neural networks in TensorFlow.
tsf-mlp Implement multilayer perceptrons in TensorFlow.
tsf-rnn Implement recurrent neural networks in TensorFlow.
tsf-gpu Learn about basic multi-GPU computation in TensorFlow.
tsf-gviz Learn about graph visualization in TensorFlow.
tsf-lviz Learn about loss visualization in TensorFlow.

tensor-flow-exercises














Notebook Description
tsf-not-mnist Learn simple data curation by creating a pickle with formatted datasets for training, development and testing in





Honorable Mention
Before we get to the top spot, I want to mention a truly top-class data science resource. It features a huge number of datasets, but it has now moved to its own platform. I highly recommend checking them out for your data science projects! 📊🔍

Data Science Dojo / datasets · Code

Data Sets to Uplift your Skills

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1. Microsoft Data Science Repo 🌟

Yes, you read that right! Microsoft has launched its own free data science repository for beginners. 🤩 This is, without a doubt, one of the best free data science courses I have ever found. It includes detailed lectures and code to help you learn and practice from scratch. A must-see for anyone serious about data science career! 🎓

GitHub logo microsoft / Data-Science-For-Beginners

10 Weeks, 20 Lessons, Data Science for All!

Data Science for Beginners - A Curriculum

Open in GitHub Codespaces

GitHub license GitHub contributors GitHub issues GitHub pull-requests PRs Welcome

GitHub watchers GitHub forks GitHub stars

Azure AI Foundry Developer Forum

Azure Cloud Advocates at Microsoft are pleased to offer a 10-week, 20-lesson curriculum all about Data Science. Each lesson includes pre-lesson and post-lesson quizzes, written instructions to complete the lesson, a solution, and an assignment. Our project-based pedagogy allows you to learn while building, a proven way for new skills to 'stick'.

Hearty thanks to our authors: Jasmine Greenaway, Dmitry Soshnikov, Nitya Narasimhan, Jalen McGee, Jen Looper, Maud Levy, Tiffany Souterre, Christopher Harrison.

🙏 Special thanks 🙏 to our Microsoft Student Ambassador authors, reviewers and content contributors, notably Aaryan Arora, Aditya Garg, Alondra Sanchez, Ankita Singh, Anupam Mishra, Arpita Das, ChhailBihari Dubey, Dibri Nsofor, Dishita Bhasin, Majd Safi, Max Blum, Miguel Correa, Mohamma Iftekher (Iftu) Ebne Jalal, Nawrin Tabassum, Raymond Wangsa Putra

Conclusion

So there you have it—my top list of data science repositories that will be incredibly helpful for you to learn and create amazing data science projects.

These resources are fantastic whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills. 🛠️📊

Based on your experience, which one is your favorite? Let me know in the comments! 👇

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