I intend to find out for myself but I'm curious to know how steep a learning curve you've found it to be.
Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
1–10 of 25 posts
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#2A nice read early on would be "Elephants don't play chess" but Rodney Brooks.
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#3Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay is excellent, and freely available online.
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#4Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach SE, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.
I am a big fan of Peter Norvig in particular, he has a ton of great essays and code available online: http://norvig.com/
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#5Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell for a serious academic book.
Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran for a practical approach in Python.
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#6books about machine learning applications/tools:
- "Programming Collective Intelligence"
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/
- "Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Technique"
- http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html
books about machine learning background/theory: - "machine learning" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html - "learning and soft computing" - http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262112558
For a simple-to-use (Python-based) machine learning tool/API check out Orange: http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/orange/
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#7Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell for a serious academic book. Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran for a practical approach in Python.
I agree on the Mitchell book.
If you are looking for a light introduction to naive Bayesian text classification then there's always the piece I wrote for DDJ: http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/184406064
John.
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#8
If you want a fairly easy read without too many equations, try:
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Second Edition) http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html
Which goes nicely with the Weka open source ML toolkit http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
(although it is a good read without the toolkit)
If you want a bit more math, I really like the recent (Oct 2007) book:
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...
It is nicely self contained, going through all the stats you'll need.
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#9Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell for a serious academic book. Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran for a practical approach in Python.
I agree on the Mitchell book. If you are looking for a light introduction to naive Bayesian text classification then there's always the piece I wrote for DDJ: http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/184406064 John.
[deleted]
Re: Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?
#10The machine learning blog at http://hunch.net/ is a good resource.