"Mining of Massive Datasets" and "Introduction to Information Retrieval" are both excellent college-level texts to their respective subjects. Also, the machine

"Mining of Massive Datasets" and "Introduction to Information Retrieval" are both excellent college-level texts to their respective subjects. Also, the machine learning book is available for free, "Elements of Statistical Learning": http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/download.html http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/download.ht...