Algorithms of the intelligent web

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1. ajtaylorOct 2012
   I had bought the book a few months ago for work in a big batch, thinking ahead to the time I would need it. That time came a day ago when I needed to do clustering of markers for displaying on a map. A stackoverflow post mentioned the book, so I pulled it out and was wowed! Great stuff so far.

   I like that the code is in python, which I find easier to read than the java examples in Algorithms of the Intelligent Web. Being a perl guy (and a perl shop), python feels pretty similar and it's easy to port anything I need. If the rest of the book is as good as the clustering chapter, it's going to be a fun treat for my brain!

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2. mindcrimeFeb 2011
   You can't take enough maths and statistics classes. Machine Learning - these days at least - is very maths and statistics oriented. Linear Algebra is big, so make sure you have that covered.

   If you want to get your toes in the water a bit with ML, there are some great ML libraries that encapsulate some of the popular algorithms. Mahout[1], Weka[2] and Mallet[3] are popular in the Java world,

   A lot of folks use Python for ML as well, and there are some good libraries there.

   The R language is also popular in ML circles; as is C++. If you learn some combination of Java, Python, C++ and/or R, you'll be in good shape from a programming language standpoint.

   Check out http://mloss.org/software/ also.

   Some good books to get started with include:

   Algorithms of the Intelligent Web[4]

   Programming Collective Intelligence[5]

   Collective Intelligence In Action[6]

   Stanford make a great series of lectures[7] available online that you might find useful.

   [1]: http://mahout.apache.org/

   [2]: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

   [3]: http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/

   [4]: http://www.manning.com/marmanis/

   [5]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596529325

   [6]: http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-...

   [7]: http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3...

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3. pguerinApr 2010
   I also bougth collective intelligence in action and algorithms of the intelligent web. Both are books from manning.com. I love those 2 books more than programming collective intelligence because I find them more complete and as easy to read.
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4. gtaniNov 2009
   the 2 books on amazon's Bought This Item Also Bought" blurb are more rigorous, and quite useful books, also covering topics like Lucene/SOLR with full java code listsings:

   Algorithms of the Intelligent Web by H. Marmanis

   Collective Intelligence in Action by Satnam Alag

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5. gtaniOct 2009
   Some other helpful books:

   - Data Mining, by Witten and Franke; describes basics , how to use Weka, which they wrote

   a couple java-based books from Manning:

   - Collective Intelligence in Action (by Satnam Alag) and

   - Algorithms of the Intelligent Web (Marmanis, Babenko)

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6. dejvAug 2009
   Programming collective intelligence is good book, but Algorithms of the intelligent web is much more deeper and better book.
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