Amazon.com: Principles of Data Mining (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science) eBook: Max Bramer: Kindle Store

I'm a programmer with no great mathematical background (2nd year university maths and stats, decades old and mostly forgotten) trying to teach myself about machine learning, and I found this book to be at exactly the right level for me. It's strongly oriented towards classifiers of one sort and another, and makes no claims to cover neural nets, genetic algorithms, genetic programming - but what it does cover it covers exceptionally clearly. I'd give it six stars out of five if it covered all aspects of machine learning, but I guess I can't have everything. In terms of writing style and comprehensibility this is probably one of the best textbooks I have ever read. I wish that it covered much much more, but what it does do it does remarkably well.