It's an excellent book, good balance of rigor and code/graphs/visuals to develop intuition, but pls see errata before buying http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbo

It's an excellent book, good balance of rigor and code/graphs/visuals to develop intuition, but pls see errata before buying http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/errata.html http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/MLbook/errata.html (and the freely available content books by Barber, McKay and Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman (ESL) are all worth close reads