Introduction to statistical learning http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ is a great text for beginners interested in machine

Introduction to statistical learning http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ is a great text for beginners interested in machine learning. It is designed to be accessible (there is a more advanced book covering the same topics) but is still quite comprehensive, in terms of machine learning basics.