I agree, PCI is a really cool book. All you need is some basic Python knowledge and it takes you through so many actual data mining examples. I used some of t

I agree, PCI is a really cool book. All you need is some basic Python knowledge and it takes you through so many actual data mining examples. I used some of that code to analyze data using Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and got results that I thought would have taken an actual CS degree to get.