Sometimes its best to answer a question with a question. Are you simply curious or is there something more pressing? For example, do you want some light readi

Sometimes its best to answer a question with a question. Are you simply curious or is there something more pressing? For example, do you want some light reading or have you perhaps been asked to implement machine learning for your company? Most answers here assume you want to jump into the ML swamp and start analyzing your trove of "big data" ASAP. But is that so?