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

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Post by silentbicycle »

codypo wrote: post #9

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 und…

Seconded. It's got some minor errors* and omissions, but after reading it for the concepts, I've found other data mining / machine learning books much easier to follow. The explanations are usually pretty good.

* I've been doing the exercises in Lua, and got stuck on one of them - the listed algorithm (IIRC) erroneously ended with "1 - num/denom" rather than "num/denom". It's listed correctly earlier. (I can look up the specifics later, I don't have the book with me.)

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

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Post by mattwdelong »

codypo wrote: post #9

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 und…

Thank you, this answers pretty much all the questions I had for the book. Just added to my cart, and now I`m trying to decide on the "MongoDB: The Definitive Guide" book.

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

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Post by amorphous »

thomas11 wrote: post #8
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?

Found the contents here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/databases/business-intellige...

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

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Post by brisance »

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.

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly...

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

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Post by eam »

I'm sure this is off topic, but as I was previewing the Hadoop book I saw this quote by the creator of Hadoop as to why he choose the name Hadoop:

The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere; those are my naming criteria. Kids are good at generating such. Googol is a kid's term.

I just see a lot of startups having a hard time finding a decent name, so that seems like a nice piece of advice worth pointing out.

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

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Post by askedrelic »

mattwdelong wrote: post #13

Wait, are these just ebooks or does this stand for the print copy as well? Oddly, the receipt doesn't specify at checkout. *Edit: Just confirmed, it`s for ebooks only.

Ebooks :(

For personal use, this would be fine, but it's much easier to share paper books at work.

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

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Post by Goosey »

askedrelic wrote: post #17
mattwdelong wrote: post #13

Wait, are these just ebooks or does this stand for the print copy as well? Oddly, the receipt doesn't specify at checkout. *Edit: Just confirmed, it`s for ebooks only.

Ebooks :( For personal use, this would be fine, but it's much easier to share paper books at work.

I find that I simply can't use ebooks. Sitting and reading on a computer monitor for long periods of time is just too much strain on my eyes. Funny enough that I don't have as much issue coding all day or reading hackernews.. but if I sit and try to read multi-page articles or ebooks it just seems impossible to do if it isn't on paper.

This is the one thing that tempts me into a Kindle. I wouldn't want to replace my existing books (or stop purchasing new books when available), but an increasing amount of 'long form' content I am interested in seems to be in digital-only format... and self-printing is prohibitively expensive.

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

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Post by shogunmike »

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 NLP one can be found online, for free, here: http://www.nltk.org/book

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

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Post by honopu »

Goosey wrote: post #18
askedrelic wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ebooks :( For personal use, this would be fine, but it's much easier to share paper books at work.

I find that I simply can't use ebooks. Sitting and reading on a computer monitor for long periods of time is just too much strain on my eyes. Funny enough that I don't have as much issue coding all day or reading hackernews.. but if I sit and try to read multi-page articles or ebooks it just seems impossible to do if it isn't on paper. This is the one thing that tempts me into a Kindle. I wouldn't want to replace my…

Try rotating one of your monitors either by buying a mount from monoprice or going to home depot and hacking something together(i did the latter) reading pdfs and ebooks has been way better, I considered(and had purchased) an ipad to read on, i couldn't justify the larger kindle price. Rotating my monitor for $13(though it is fixed, but reversible(with a screwdriver) made it much easier to live with.

http://imgur.com/dk8q8.jpg

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