The Definitive Guide to anything should be a helpful, informative road map to that topic, including visualizations, lessons learned, best practices, application areas, success stories, suggested reading, and more.  I don’t know if all such “definitive guides” can meet all of those qualifications, but here are some that do a good job:

1. The Field Guide to Data Science (big data analytics by Booz Allen Hamilton)
2. The Data Science Capability Handbook (big data analytics by Booz Allen Hamilton)
3. The Definitive Guide to Becoming a Data Scientist (big data analytics)
4. The Definitive Guide to Data Science – The Data Science Handbook (analytics)
5. The Definitive Guide to doing Data Science for Social Good (big data analytics, data4good)
6. The Definitive Q&A Guide for Aspiring Data Scientists (big data analytics, data science)
7. The Definitive Guide to Data Literacy for all (analytics, data science)
8. The Data Analytics Handbook Series (big data, data science, data literacy by Leada)
9. The Big Analytics Book (big data, data science)
10. The Definitive Guide to Big Data (analytics, data science)
11. The Definitive Guide to the Data Lake (big data analytics by MapR)
12. The Definitive Guide to Business Intelligence (big data, business analytics)
13. The Definitive Guide to Natural Language Processing (text analytics, data science)
14. A Gentle Guide to Machine Learning (analytics, data science)
15. Building Machine Learning Systems with Python (a non-definitive guide) (data analytics)
16. The Definitive Guide to Data Journalism (journalism analytics, data storytelling)
17. The Definitive “Getting Started with Apache Spark” ebook (big data analytics by MapR)
18. The Definitive Guide to Getting Started with Apache Spark (big data analytics, data science)
19. The Definitive Guide to Hadoop (big data analytics)
20. The Definitive Guide to the Internet of Things for Business (IoT, big data analytics)
21. The Definitive Guide to Retail Analytics (customer analytics, digital marketing)
22. The Definitive Guide to Personalization Maturity in Digital Marketing Analytics (by SYNTASA)
23. The Definitive Guide to Nonprofit Analytics (business intelligence, data mining, big data)
24. The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics & Analytics
25. The Definitive Guide to Campaign Tagging in Google Analytics (marketing, SEO)
26. The Definitive Guide to Channels in Google Analytics (SEO)
27. A Definitive Roadmap to the Future of Analytics (marketing, machine learning)
28. The Definitive Guide to Data-Driven Attribution (digital marketing, customer analytics)
29. The Definitive Guide to Content Curation (content-based marketing, SEO analytics)
30. The Definitive Guide to Collecting and Storing Social Profile Data (social big data analytics)
31. The Definitive Guide to Data-Driven API Testing (analytics automation, analytics-as-a-service)
32. The Definitive Guide to the World’s Biggest Data Breaches (visual analytics, privacy analytics)

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