Here's some free book lists http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-ava

Here's some free book lists http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Tutorials http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-available-textbooks-on-machine-learning http://metaoptimize.com/qa/questions/186/good-freely-availab... I think the best single resource is Kevin Murphy ML text, but there's lots of relevant stuff on linear algebra, Bayesian analysis etc ______________ Here's a "curriculum" http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/post/46864003608/a-practical-intro-to-data-science http://blog.zipfianacademy.com/post/46864003608/a-practical-... And look at the coursera courses by Koller, Andrew Ng, NLP by Collins etc