There's really good books on Data Mining at Borders, and a recent bunch of "collective intelligence" books; the Manning books are excellent, but you have know j

There's really good books on Data Mining at Borders, and a recent bunch of "collective intelligence" books; the Manning books are excellent, but you have know java; you probably also want to install Weka and R, look at the Python suite (numpy, scipy, matplotlib), tools like that; also look up the ~107 (!) algorithms that Bellkor used for Netflix comp. http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/ http://www.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Building-Applications/dp/0596529325/ http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu... http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-Alag/dp/1933988312/ http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-... http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Intelligent-Web-Haralambos-Marmanis/dp/1933988665/ http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Intelligent-Web-Haralambos-...