books about machine learning applications/tools: - "Programming Collective Intelligence" - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ http://www.oreilly.co

books about machine learning applications/tools: - "Programming Collective Intelligence" - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ - "Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Technique" - http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html books about machine learning background/theory: - "machine learning" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html - "learning and soft computing" - http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262112558 http://cognet.mit.edu/library/books/view?isbn=0262112558 For a simple-to-use (Python-based) machine learning tool/API check out Orange: http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/orange/ http://magix.fri.uni-lj.si/orange/