Resources

General advice for graduate students

• Should you go to grad school? Advice from renowned network scientist Duncan Watts. 

• The PhD Grind: An 122-page  memoir of Philip Guo's PhD career in computer science.

• The Professor Is In: An excellent resource by Karen Kelsky, ex-tenured prof and now professional academic career coach. I highly recommend her Pearl of Wisdom blog.

• Sterne's collection of academic professionalization resources

• Ph.Do: Eszter Hargittai's excellent advice column on professionalism

• Get a life, PhD: A sociology professor's advice on writing, being effective and efficient at work, and other professionalization advice. 

• Academia vs. Industry: Lada Adamic's excellent summary of the pros/cons of both worlds

• Specific advice for communication grad students: Jesse Fox has compiled a list of key books for comm students

Statistics and related resources

• R courses developed by VU Amsterdam

• Just Enough R 

• Intro to R for social scientists.

• R analysis examples from UCLA.

• Quick R website (intended especially for experienced users of other statistical software).

• Course on R and R programming by Ruth Ripley.

• Data Carpentry module for social science 

• R style guide by Google. 

• Machine learning resources

LaTeX and others

• Getting started with LaTeX

• LaTeX tutorial by Andrew Roberts