I'd definitely agree on not starting with scikit-learn, but using Python isn't so bad. Implement a few things manually -- decision trees and Naive Bayes really

I'd definitely agree on not starting with scikit-learn, but using Python isn't so bad. Implement a few things manually -- decision trees and Naive Bayes really aren't that hard to do, and neither's clustering. I quite like this site for an accessible, well-scoped intro with some good example code: http://guidetodatamining.com/ http://guidetodatamining.com/