If you guys mostly have CS background you should definitely check this out : http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ti

If you guys mostly have CS background you should definitely check this out : http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ It's Data Mining from a statistician point of view. You can download the entire book for free on the website and the graphs and computations are done with R. This book is also one of Hal Varian's favourites: http://www.dataspora.com/blog/sexy-data-geeks/ http://www.dataspora.com/blog/sexy-data-geeks/