The machine learning reddit recently started a faq: http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/20i0vi/meta_collection_of_links_for_beginners_faq/ http://

The machine learning reddit recently started a faq: http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/20i0vi/meta_collection_of_links_for_beginners_faq/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/20i0vi/meta... They also have a good selection of articles though they tend to be somewhat deep learning/neural network focused. These algorithms have seen a big surge in interest and success of late but may not be as applicable to "data mining" (as opposed to say image or speech recognition).