Learning
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Coursera: a great website for MOOC
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Udacity: another great website for MOOC
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MathWorld: a dictionary for mathematical terms
Tools
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LaTex: a cool document preparation system
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Python: sweet and easy-to-go language
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MATLAB: not free, but still cool for a matrix fan like me
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OneNote: note taking tool
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Mendeley: an academic search engine as well as a FREE tool for paper management
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Gephi: an amazing data analysis and visualization tool
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NetLogo: a programmable modelling tool with visualization
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HistCite: a package for bibliometric analysis and information visualization
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ArnetMiner: a great academic search engine as well as a useful analysis tool
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Google Scholar: search by paper
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DBLP: comprehensive database for academic search. Search by author
Blogs and Homepages
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Yin Wang: famous for his paper Work entirely on Linux/GNU, once triggering a fight between Windows users and Linux users. Also famous for his dropout from Tsinghua University and Cornell University
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Chiyuan Zhang: CS P.hD. candidate in MIT. He often introduces the basic concepts as well as the advanced topics of machine learning, in the most readable way
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Lada Adamic: one of my favorite researchers on social network. Also known for teaching a SNA course in Coursera
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Mark Newman: a network scientist. Modularity by him is currently one of the most popular metric for community detection
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Chris H.Q. Ding: research on Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(NMF) and Spectral Clustering
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Jure Leskovec: a researcher on social network
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Haesun Park: a researcher on NMF
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Hui Xiong: an admirable researcher, whose autography is encouraging. Alumnus of USTC
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Linli Xu: mentor forever and always, and I miss her
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Ceren Budak: on computational social science
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Fei Wang: a very active and broad-interested researcher on social networks, healthcare, etc
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Jiawei Han: one of the leaders in data mining