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rankam · 2013-06-17
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Many companies that employ Data Scientists in NYC use R for their stats and ML work. While I personally prefer Python over R for ML related tasks, R does seem to be gaining traction in the private sector. I recommend ML for Hackers if you're interested in learning more about R - the author is very knowledgable and works as a Data Scientist for Facebook.
nwenzel · 2013-03-07
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I found Machine Learning for Hackers to be good as a practical, case study based book for learning to apply and understand what is going on in several machine learning problems.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-for-Hackers-ebook/dp/...
It's definitely a practical approach. There's a lot of explanation but, despite coming from two PhD candidates, it certainly did not read like an academic paper.
It's also case study based, not necessarily algorithm based.
As a bonus, I used that book to teach myself R. I don't think it's meant to be an intro to R tutorial, but it worked for me.
All three are positives in my book.
eloisius · 2012-05-04
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I'm definitely grabbing Programming Collective Intelligence[1] and Machine Learning for Hackers[2]. Any recommendations based on those?
Otherwise, this is a bit confusing.