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Re: O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

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Post by thibaut_barrere »

I bought and read the one on MongoDB which is really great (concise read, to the point, and a learned a lot too). I am currently reading the NLP one and it's a great read too.

Can anyone give reviews on the other ones (for instance the one on data analysis) ?

Re: O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

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Post by gomer »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #2

I bought and read the one on MongoDB which is really great (concise read, to the point, and a learned a lot too). I am currently reading the NLP one and it's a great read too. Can anyone give reviews on the other ones (for instance the one on data analysis) ?

I bought and read the Collective Intelligence one and enjoyed it. It's a good read.

Re: O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

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Post by jlees »

gomer wrote: post #4
thibaut_barrere wrote: post #2

I bought and read the one on MongoDB which is really great (concise read, to the point, and a learned a lot too). I am currently reading the NLP one and it's a great read too. Can anyone give reviews on the other ones (for instance the one on data analysis) ?

I bought and read the Collective Intelligence one and enjoyed it. It's a good read.

Agreed. The collective intelligence book has had good reviews from me and others on HN in the past. It's a good intro text with implementable examples.

Re: O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

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Post by va_coder »

thibaut_barrere wrote: post #2

I bought and read the one on MongoDB which is really great (concise read, to the point, and a learned a lot too). I am currently reading the NLP one and it's a great read too. Can anyone give reviews on the other ones (for instance the one on data analysis) ?

The Hadoop book gives lots of insights into the internals of Hadoop.

But if you want to get started quickly you might be better off just reading a quick guide (http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Li...) and using the Pig console.

Re: O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

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Post by thomas11 »

3pt14159 wrote: post #7

Has anyone read "Data Analysis with Open Source Tools"? http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802356/ I can't seem to look through the book, not even at Amazon, which I like to do before buying something.

This one is strange. It was just released this month, but without even a table of contents. How are people supposed to decide whether to buy it?

Re: O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng

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Post by codypo »

The Programming Collective Intelligence book on sale here is wonderful! If you want to build software that does something intelligent thanks to the mining of a tremendous set of data (think recommendation engine, price models, content classification, search engine, etc) and you're not sure where to start, start with this book. Not being a CS academic, it's hard to find useful, non-trivial introductions that I can understand on these topics. That's where this book excels. It's one of the few technical books I regularly go back to.
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