Anecdotal thought, I find practical guides and tutorials like this far more useful for learning machine learning than any of the public MOOCs like Andrew Ng's m

Anecdotal thought, I find practical guides and tutorials like this far more useful for learning machine learning than any of the public MOOCs like Andrew Ng's machine learning class. There's a lot of dense content shown in video lectures and very little practice. I almost had to google every topic and find a write-up like this to drive each concept home.