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⬐ grantjgordonThanks so much!⬐ mindcrimeI almost forgot, there's a great thread on this topic on Quora as well:http://www.quora.com/Machine-Learning/What-are-some-good-res...
LOTS of good stuff there. Have fun!
You can't take enough maths and statistics classes. Machine Learning - these days at least - is very maths and statistics oriented. Linear Algebra is big, so make sure you have that covered.If you want to get your toes in the water a bit with ML, there are some great ML libraries that encapsulate some of the popular algorithms. Mahout[1], Weka[2] and Mallet[3] are popular in the Java world,
A lot of folks use Python for ML as well, and there are some good libraries there.
The R language is also popular in ML circles; as is C++. If you learn some combination of Java, Python, C++ and/or R, you'll be in good shape from a programming language standpoint.
Check out http://mloss.org/software/ also.
Some good books to get started with include:
Algorithms of the Intelligent Web[4]
Programming Collective Intelligence[5]
Collective Intelligence In Action[6]
Stanford make a great series of lectures[7] available online that you might find useful.
[1]: http://mahout.apache.org/
[2]: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
[3]: http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/
[4]: http://www.manning.com/marmanis/
[5]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596529325
[6]: http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-...
[7]: http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3...
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There's really good books on Data Mining at Borders, and a recent bunch of "collective intelligence" books; the Manning books are excellent, but you have know java; you probably also want to install Weka and R, look at the Python suite (numpy, scipy, matplotlib), tools like that; also look up the ~107 (!) algorithms that Bellkor used for Netflix comp.http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/
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⬐ showerstStrong upvote on that book list. If you want to learn from scratch, start with the "Programming Collective Intelligence" book, then move to "Collective intelligence in action", they're both quite good.If you've covered and understand the material in both, you're probably ready to consider moving to some of the more academic texts.