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- thibaut_barrere 16y agoI bought and read the one on MongoDB which is really great (concise read, to the point, and a learned a lot too). I am currently reading the NLP one and it's a great read too. Can anyone give reviews on the other ones (for instance the one on data analysis) ?
- gomer 16y agoI bought and read the Collective Intelligence one and enjoyed it. It's a good read.
- thibaut_barrere 16y ago+1 - I actually already own this one and find it's great as well.
- jlees 16y agoAgreed. The collective intelligence book has had good reviews from me and others on HN in the past. It's a good intro text with implementable examples.
- va_coder 16y agoThe Hadoop book gives lots of insights into the internals of Hadoop. But if you want to get started quickly you might be better off just reading a quick guide (http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Linux_%28Single-Node_Cluster%29 http://www.michael-noll.com/wiki/Running_Hadoop_On_Ubuntu_Li...) and using the Pig console.
- shogunmike 16y agoThe NLP one can be found online, for free, here: http://www.nltk.org/book http://www.nltk.org/book
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- 3pt14159 16y agoHas anyone read "Data Analysis with Open Source Tools"? http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802356/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802356/ I can't seem to look through the book, not even at Amazon, which I like to do before buying something.
- thomas11 16y agoThis one is strange. It was just released this month, but without even a table of contents. How are people supposed to decide whether to buy it?
- amorphous 16y agoFound the contents here: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/databases/business-intelligence/9781449389802 http://my.safaribooksonline.com/databases/business-intellige...
- brisance 16y agohttp://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly&cid=orm-cat-readnow-9781449389802 http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly...
- 3pt14159 16y agoPerfect! Thank you very much!
- rachelj 16y agoThe table of contents is now available on the book's catalog page (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802356/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596802356/), and you can view the table of contents and preview snippets of the content on Safari (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly&cid=orm-cat-readnow-9781449389802 http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781449389802?portal=oreilly...).
- codypo 16y agoThe Programming Collective Intelligence book on sale here is wonderful! If you want to build software that does something intelligent thanks to the mining of a tremendous set of data (think recommendation engine, price models, content classification, search engine, etc) and you're not sure where to start, start with this book. Not being a CS academic, it's hard to find useful, non-trivial introductions that I can understand on these topics. That's where this book excels. It's one of the few technical books I regularly go back to.
- silentbicycle 16y agoSeconded. It's got some minor errors* and omissions, but after reading it for the concepts, I've found other data mining / machine learning books much easier to follow. The explanations are usually pretty good. * I've been doing the exercises in Lua, and got stuck on one of them - the listed algorithm (IIRC) erroneously ended with "1 - num/denom" rather than "num/denom". It's listed correctly earlier. (I can look up the specifics later, I don't have the book with me.)
- ralphc 16y agoOff and on I've been doing the exercises and examples in Clojure, and it's a little difficult because the Python examples seem so imperative to me. It's been a challenge turning them into functional code, there's a couple of places where I go over a list twice when I probably should be able to get all I need with one pass, and of course when I have to resort to using an atom or ref I feel a little dirty.
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- mattwdelong 16y agoThank you, this answers pretty much all the questions I had for the book. Just added to my cart, and now I`m trying to decide on the "MongoDB: The Definitive Guide" book.
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- mattwdelong 16y agoWait, are these just ebooks or does this stand for the print copy as well? Oddly, the receipt doesn't specify at checkout. *Edit: Just confirmed, it`s for ebooks only.
- thibaut_barrere 16y agoOuch, thanks for mentioning this! I was about to buy 3 without even noticing. I really prefer paper books personally; I'm not sure I'm going to buy as much now.
- askedrelic 16y agoEbooks :( For personal use, this would be fine, but it's much easier to share paper books at work.
- Goosey 16y agoI find that I simply can't use ebooks. Sitting and reading on a computer monitor for long periods of time is just too much strain on my eyes. Funny enough that I don't have as much issue coding all day or reading hackernews.. but if I sit and try to read multi-page articles or ebooks it just seems impossible to do if it isn't on paper. This is the one thing that tempts me into a Kindle. I wouldn't want to replace my existing books (or stop purchasing new books when available), but an increasing amount of 'long form' content I am interested in seems to be in digital-only format... and self-printing is prohibitively expensive.
- honopu 16y agoTry rotating one of your monitors either by buying a mount from monoprice or going to home depot and hacking something together(i did the latter) reading pdfs and ebooks has been way better, I considered(and had purchased) an ipad to read on, i couldn't justify the larger kindle price. Rotating my monitor for $13(though it is fixed, but reversible(with a screwdriver) made it much easier to live with. http://imgur.com/dk8q8.jpg http://imgur.com/dk8q8.jpg
- eam 16y agoI'm sure this is off topic, but as I was previewing the Hadoop book I saw this quote by the creator of Hadoop as to why he choose the name Hadoop: The name my kid gave a stuffed yellow elephant. Short, relatively easy to spell and pronounce, meaningless, and not used elsewhere; those are my naming criteria. Kids are good at generating such. Googol is a kid's term. I just see a lot of startups having a hard time finding a decent name, so that seems like a nice piece of advice worth pointing out.
- ludwigvan 16y agoGood discount. Also follow http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday where they discount 50% of a different book everyday. But still, don't you think the ebooks should be priced way lower? Maybe they are expensive b/c they are drm-free. I know the fixed costs probably cost a lot, and I wonder how much printing a book costs for publishers.
- bgentry 16y agoAnybody read the Cassandra book? Just picked it up but I was curious if anybody else had found it to be especially useful.