Collective intelligence in action

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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. gtaniOct 2009
   some other helpful books:

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

   http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Manag...

   a couple java-based books from Manning:

   - Collective Intelligence in Action (by Satnam Alag) and

   - Algorithms of the Intelligen Web (Marmanis, Babenko)

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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. showerstAug 2009
   Strong upvote on that book list. If you want to learn from scratch, start with the "Programming Collective Intelligence" book, then move to "Collective intelligence in action", they're both quite good.

   If you've covered and understand the material in both, you're probably ready to consider moving to some of the more academic texts.

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