FWIW, I'm studying ML with Introduction to Statistical Learning, which was recommended to me by several people. Personally I didn't enjoy Coursera's ML course

FWIW, I'm studying ML with Introduction to Statistical Learning, which was recommended to me by several people. Personally I didn't enjoy Coursera's ML course (though I believe Ng is a great teacher) and dropped out, but I'm enjoying this book. It's available as PDF for free: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/