Check out the stanfard MOOC class taught by Andrew Ng... that's where most people (I know of) started. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=And

Check out the stanfard MOOC class taught by Andrew Ng... that's where most people (I know of) started. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Andrew+Ng+machine+learning&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Andrew+... Web developer to ML? Doable but you may have to work harder than some other folks have a background in statistics, probability, signal processing etc. Plus, you don't have to be an algorithms developer... doing the backend, compute cluster is hugely valuable, too.