Ng's course would be a great place to start, imho - though I am a bit biased: I started out my journey by taking the ML Class in 2011. Lot's of "concretely's" s

Ng's course would be a great place to start, imho - though I am a bit biased: I started out my journey by taking the ML Class in 2011. Lot's of "concretely's" strewn about! Anyhow, it was a great introduction, and light on the calc (but more emphasis on probability and linear algebra). If you have matlab or octave experience, it will also help (I didn't - the revelation of having a vector primitive was wonderful once I got the swing of it, though). Note again, though, that I took the ML Class - not the Coursera version; I have heard that they are identical, but it has been 5+ years since I took it, too.