The "Collective Intelligence" books, by Alag and by Marmanis / Babenko, are well done (source code is java). Along with NLP texts by Jurafsky/Martin and Mannin

The "Collective Intelligence" books, by Alag and by Marmanis / Babenko, are well done (source code is java). Along with NLP texts by Jurafsky/Martin and Manning / Schütze, and Norvig/Russell AI text, and a large number good texts on data mining(1st one i bought by Witten /Frank, has been recently updated and has lots weka examples), should give you a good base. The database collection and cleaning (spidering, scraping/info extraction, database dedup/record linkage) is the part that's not as ewll documented. http://www.manning.com/alag/ http://www.manning.com/alag/ http://www.manning.com/marmanis/ http://www.manning.com/marmanis/