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Table of Contents
Introduction
Books
BeginnerBooks
PracticalBooks
PythonBooks
RBooks
Textbooks
Communities
StackExchange
Reddit
Quora
Other
Videos
UniversityCourses
PaidCourses
OtherVideos
UniversityCourseMaterial
UndergraduateLevel
GraduateLevel
SoftwareandLibraries
Competitions
Guides
Beginner
Novice
Intermediate
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Introduction
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MachineLearningResourceGuide.

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Books
Ireadalotofbooks,andeveninthisageofebooks,Ilikehavingalotofreferencebooksonthe
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informationIneed.

Thebookslistedinthissectionaregroupedbyafewdifferentcriteriathatyoumayfinduseful,as
suchyoumayseeafewduplicatesacrossthedifferentlistsofbooks.

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afewcentsfromAmazonifyoudecidetobuyabook.

Myadvice:Pickonebookandreadit,covertocover.

Beginner Books
Thesearebooksfortheabsolutebeginnertogetafeelingforwhatmachinelearningorworking
[Link].

PredictiveAnalytics:ThePowertoPredictWhoWillClick,Buy,Lie,orDie
DataScienceforBusiness:Whatyouneedtoknowaboutdatamininganddataanalytic
thinking
DataSmart:UsingDataSciencetoTransformInformationintoInsight

Practical Books
Ifyouareaprogrammerorengineerandarelookingforabookwithcodeexamplestoimplement
orexecute,thesearebooksforyou:

ProgrammingCollectiveIntelligence:BuildingSmartWeb2.0Applications
DataMining:PracticalMachineLearningToolsandTechniques
MachineLearningforHackers
MachineLearning:AnAlgorithmicPerspective
MachineLearninginAction
AppliedPredictiveModeling

Youcanlearnmoreaboutthesebooksinmyblogpost6PracticalBooksforBeginningMachine
Learning

Python Books
Thesearebooksforlearningandapplyingmachinelearningifyouareapythonprogrammer.

BuildingMachineLearningSystemswithPython
Learningscikitlearn:MachineLearninginPython
MachineLearninginAction
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ProgrammingCollectiveIntelligence:BuildingSmartWeb2.0Applications
MachineLearning:AnAlgorithmicPerspective
MiningtheSocialWeb:DataMiningFacebook,Twitter,LinkedIn,Google+,GitHub,and
More
NaturalLanguageProcessingwithPython
ProgrammingComputerVisionwithPython:Toolsandalgorithmsforanalyzingimages
PythonforDataAnalysis:DataWranglingwithPandas,NumPy,andIPython

Youcanlearnmoreaboutthesebooksinmyblogpost:PythonMachineLearningBooks

R Books
IfyouareanRprogrammerorarelookingatapplyingmachinelearninginR,thesebooksarefor
you.

AppliedPredictiveModeling
AnIntroductiontoStatisticalLearning:withApplicationsinR
PracticalDataSciencewithR
MachineLearningwithR
DataMiningwithR:LearningwithCaseStudies
DataMiningandBusinessAnalyticswithR
DataMiningwithRattleandR:TheArtofExcavatingDataforKnowledgeDiscovery

Youcanlearnmoreaboutthesebooksinmyblogpost:BooksforMachineLearningwithR

Textbooks
Thesearebooksformachinelearningpractitionerslookingtogobeyondthepracticalbooksand
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universitycourses.

MachineLearning,byTomMitchell
LearningFromData,byYaserAbuMostafa,MalikMagdonIsmailandHsuanTienLin
MachineLearning:AProbabilisticPerspective,byKevinMurphy
PatternRecognitionandMachineLearning,byChristopherBishop
TheElementsofStatisticalLearning:DataMining,Inference,andPrediction,byTrevor
Hastie,RobertTibshiraniandJeromeFriedman

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Communities
Youwillhavealotofquestionsalongyourjourneytowardmachinelearningmasteryandthere
areexcellentplaceswheremachinelearningexpertscananswerthosequestionsforyou,ifyou
knowwheretolook.

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thetypesofquestionsandanswersofferedineachcommunitybeforeselectingtheright
communityforyoutoaskyourquestion.

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communitybeforeposting.

Stack Exchange
Thestackexchangesitesarequestionandanswercommunities,sotheyaretargetedtowards
[Link],answerquestionstowhichyou
knowtheanswerand(myfavorite)readquestionsandanswerstodiscovernewmethodsand
perspectives.

TherearefoursitesIliketodipinto:
CrossValidated:Thissiteisusefulforlowlevelquestionsonalgorithmsandstatistical
methods.
QuantitativeFinance:(specificallythemachinelearningtag)Thissiteisusefulifyouare
operatinginthefinancialdomain,butgenerallyifyouareworkingwithtimeseriesdata.
Programmers:(specificallythemachinelearningtag)Greatforspecificcodequestions,
suchasaproblemwithagivenlibraryortoolyouareusing.
StackOverflow:(specificallythemachinelearningtag)Again,likeprogrammers,greatfor
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siteandcancovermachinelearningalgorithmsandlibraries.

Thereisanewsitethathasstartedup,butisstillinbeta,[Link]
ScienceandIamfindingitveryinterestingforthegeneralconcernsofappliedmachinelearning
(mixofcodeandmath).

Reddit
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answersite,alinksharingsiteor(moretypically)amixofthetwo.

AfewsubredditsIfrequentinclude:

MachineLearning:ContainsofmixofhowdoIgetstartedandmoreadvancedlinksto
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ComputerVision:Mostlyquestionsoncomputervisionquestionsboththeoreticaland
practical(suchaslibraries).
NaturalLanguage:Focusonnaturallanguageprocessing,providingagoodmixof
questionsandlinkstorelevantarticlesandblogposts.
Statistics:Discussiononstatisticalsoftwareandmethods,greatfordiggingdeeperintoa
givenmethodoralgorithm.
DataScience:Mostlylinkstopoststhatstraddledataanalysisandmachinelearning.
BigData:Focusedpostsanddiscussionsonthebigdataecosystem.

Thereareothersubredditsonrelevantandrelatedtopics,butIhavenotfoundthemasuseful.

Quora
Quoraisaquestionandanswersitethatisdividedintotopics,muchlikeredditbutonly
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thestackexchangesites,theyaretypicallylesstechnical,lessproblemfocusedandmore
meaty.

AfewQuoratopicsIfrequentinclude:

MachineLearning:Usefulforhighlevelquestionsonalgorithms,processes,resources
[Link].
Statistics:Focusondeeperstatisticalmethodsandalgorithms,butincludesalotof
machinelearningcontent.
DataMining:Goodquestionswithafocusontheappliedsideofmachinelearning,buta
lotofoverlapwithMachineLearning.
DataScience:MuchliketheDataMiningandMachinelearningtopics,thequestionsare
typicallyahigherlevel.

Therearemanyothertopicsthatmightbeuseful,notlimitedtoDataAnalysis,Predictive
Analytics,[Link],
DeepLearning,Classification,andR.

Other
TherearesomeothergreatcommunitiesaroundthatIcouldnotclassifyaseasily.

MetaOptimizeQ+A:LikeCrossValidated,thisisaquestionandanswersitethatisgreat
[Link].
KaggleForums:Greatfordiscussionaroundspecificcompetitionsanddatasets,andfull
ofgreatnuggetsofadviceforfeatureengineering,ensemblingandrefiningyourtest
harnesses.
DataTau:Asocialnewssitewithafocusonlinkstopostsondataandmachinelearning
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Videos
Videosareagreatwaytolearnaboutmachinelearning,bothforlectureandtutorialcontent.

University Courses
ThereareuniversitycoursesthatareofferedonlineforfreebyorganizationssuchasCoursera
[Link],homeworkthatisassessed,[Link]
[Link].

Stanford:MachineLearning,byAndrewNg
Stanford:ProbabilisticGraphicalModels,byDaphneKoller
Caltech:LearningfromData,byYaserAbuMostafa
UniversityofToronto:NeuralNetworksforMachineLearning,byGeoffreyHinton
UniversityofWashington:MachineLearning,byPedroDomingos
UniversityofWashington:IntroductiontoRecommenderSystems,byJosephKonstan
andMichaelEkstrand
UniversityofWashington:IntroductiontoDataScience,byBillHowe

Paid Courses
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afeeandhaveaccesstothepremiumcontenttolearnsomethingspecific.

Udemy:AnIntrotoMachineLearningwithWebData,byHilaryMason
Udemy:AdvancedMachineLearning,byHilaryMason
Udemy:IntroductiontoR,byJagannathRajagopal
Udemy:WorkingwithBigData,byPearson

Other Videos

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GettingInShapeForTheSportOfDataScienceTalkbyJeremyHoward
FacebookTechTalk:PeterNorvigonbigdata

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University Course Material

Thereisapopulartrendfortopleveltechnicaluniversitiestoputcoursematerialsonline
includinglecturevideos,slides,[Link]
selfstudy.

Someuniversitiesmakethematerialseasiertofindthanothers,MITisashininglightinthis
regardwiththeirOpenCourseWareinitiative.

Undergraduate Level

MIT6.034ArtificialIntelligence(provideamachinelearningfocus)
MIT15.075StatisticalThinkingandDataAnalysis
StanfordCS229MachineLearning(SEEsite)
StanfordStatistics315aModernAppliedStatistics:ElementsofStatisticalLearning
StanfordStatistics315bModernAppliedStatistics:ElementsofStatisticalLearningII
CaltechLearningfromData

Graduate Level

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MIT6.867MachineLearning
MIT6.825TechniquesinArtificialIntelligence(relatedmachinelearningtopics)
MIT9.520StatisticalLearningTheoryandApplications
MIT9.641IntroductiontoNeuralNetworks
MIT15.097Prediction:MachineLearningandStatistics
MIT18.465TopicsinStatistics:StatisticalLearningTheory
HarvardCS281IntelligentMachines:Perception,Learning,andUncertainty(alsoCS181)
CornellCS6784AdvancedMachineLearning
CMU10701MachineLearning(videoshereandhere)

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Software and Libraries

Therearealotofsoftwareandlibrariesthatyoucoulduseformachinelearning.

Belowaresomebestofbreedsoftwaretoolsandlibrariesthatareusefulforlearningand
practicingmachinelearning.

WEKA(GUI,Java)
R
ScikitLearn(Python)
Octave(anopensourceMatLab)
BigML(inthebrowser)

Ifyouarejuststartingout,[Link],
youcanrunyourfirstclassifierin5minutesflat.

Ifyouarestrugglingwithwhichprogramminglanguagetouse,checkoutmypost:
BestProgrammingLanguageforMachineLearning.

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Competitions
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lookatthewebpagesforsomeofthepopularconferencesandyouwillverylikelyfindcurrent
activemachinelearningcompetitions.

Competitivemachinelearningcanbeagreatwaytolearnnewdatapreparationandmodelling
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greatwaytotestoutmethodsandideas.

Kaggle
TunedIT
CrowdAnalytix
InnoCentive
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Guides
Ihaveapassionforhelpingprogrammersandengineersgetstartedandkickasswithmachine
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coursesthatIhavecreatedforyou.

Beginner

SelfStudyGuidetoMachineLearning:(StartHere!)Discoverthestructuredframework
forselfstudyingmachinelearningthatincludes4competencylevelsandfocused
objectivesandactivitiesforeachlevel.
MachineLearningFoundations:Discovertheconceptsanddefinitionsofmachine
learningandhavetheconfidencetoexplainittofriendsandcolleagues.
ConquerSelfLimitingBeliefsinMachineLearning:Discoveryourownselflimitingbeliefs
thatarehaltingyoufromgettingstartedormakingprogressinthefieldofmachine
learning.
MachineLearningMatters:Discoverwhymachinelearningmatterstoyouandwhyit
matterstotheworld.

Novice

AppliedMachineLearningProcess:Discoverthestructuredstepbystepprocessfor
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6stepframeworkwithactivitiesandquestionstoanswerateachstepalongtheway.
JumpStartScikitLearn:DiscoverthePythonmachinelearninglibraryscikitlearninthis
lightweightrecipebook.Contains35recipesreadytocopyandpastefordatahandling,
supervisedlearning,regularizationalgorithms,ensemblemethodsandadvancedtopics.
JumpStartWeka:DiscovertheWekamachinelearningworkbenchincluding
stepbysteptutorialsforanalyzingdata,applyingmachinelearningalgorithmsand
designingandinterpretingmachinelearningexperiments.
BeginningWeka:[VideoCourse]Discovertheprocessofappliedmachinelearningwith
stepbysteptutorialsandworkedcasestudyproblemsusingtheWekamachinelearning
workbench.Thefeatureofthiscoursearethe3realworldcasestudieswithstepbystep
tutorialsandvideos.

Intermediate

SmallProjectsMethodology:Discovertheblueprintforlearningandpracticingapplied
machinelearningwith4projecttypesand90projectideas.
AlgorithmDescriptionTemplate:Discoverastrategyforlearningamachinelearning
algorithmfast.Iusedthisstrategytolearnanddescribe45natureinspiredalgorithms
thatIturnedintoabook.
CleverAlgorithms:NatureInspiredProgrammingRecipes:Discover45natureinspired
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includeaworkingimplementationinRuby.

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SuperBundle:[GetItAll!]Inthisbundleyougetacopyofallcurrentandallfuture
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youwillbeemailedasnewguidesareaddedinthefuturesothatyoucandownloadthem
atnoextracost.

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Ivewrittenbooksonalgorithms,consultedforstartupsandIworkontropicalcycloneforecasting
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articlesandparticipateinmachinelearningcompetitions.

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