Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

“It’s a technical book, but it starts from ground zero: What does it mean to learn from data? The computer program is automatically finding patterns and formulas and, in that sense, learning from the historical data or the labeled data—what do those patterns look like? Sometimes they’re just if-then business rules, and my book gets into a little of that detail as well. This book gets into it in a much more technical way, but it does from the get-go. If you’re already a computer programmer, you’d understand it. If you’re already relatively mathematically oriented but you know nothing about machine learning, you’d follow it. If you’re a newcomer and you have no inclination in terms of math or technology, it would be a challenge to understand. It is meant to start from ground zero, but it assumes quantitative aptitude.” Read more...

The best books on Machine Learning

Eric Siegel, Entrepreneurs & Business People