Wickham, H. & Grolemund, G. (2017). R for data science. O'reilly Media Inc. Fantastic book on Data Science with R, Part IV Model (chapters 18-20) is a must-read! Review these chapters if necessary.
Goja, F. (2020, January 10). Predictive modelers' guide to choosing the best fit regression model for beginners.Towards Data Science. This article provides a good guide to choosing regression models.
Lipp,B, Roychowdhury, R, & Sarkar, T. (2020). The data wrangling workshop (2nd ed.). Packet Publishing. Read Chapter 3: Introduction to NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib.