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Agreed. Any suggestions for those applied books? I haven't found any yet.
by achompas 14y ago
Agreed. Any suggestions for those applied books? I haven't found any yet.
- nwenzel 14y agoI found Machine Learning for Hackers to be good as a practical, case study based book for learning to apply and understand what is going on in several machine learning problems. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920018483.do http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-for-Hackers-ebook/dp/B007A0BNP4/ http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-for-Hackers-ebook/dp/... It's definitely a practical approach. There's a lot of explanation but, despite coming from two PhD candidates, it certainly did not read like an academic paper. It's also case study based, not necessarily algorithm based. As a bonus, I used that book to teach myself R. I don't think it's meant to be an intro to R tutorial, but it worked for me. All three are positives in my book.
- davidf18 14y agoA good practical book is Machine Learning in Action" http://www.amazon.com/dp/1617290181/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/1617290181/
- atrilla 14y agoYep, Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork: http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-2nd-Richard-Duda/dp/0471056693 http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Classification-2nd-Richard-Dud... It is very pragmatic, including algorithms for many machine learning and artificial intelligence topics (from fitting functions for classification or regression purposes to search processes). The authors have a strong industrial background (in addition to the academic).