More Machine Learning for Hackers

The commonest questions about data science are to do with getting started. I have even found myself vacillating between these two states -- and to limit the sense of panic and doom that normally accompanies this statelessness, I maintain a list of resources that contain instructional material which achieves a healthy tradeoff between the two states. In other words, these are resources that help you learn machine learning and its underlying disciplines, as well as the nuances of the software tools available to implement them. On top of my list is Machine Learning for Hackers. One of the reasons I love this book is that it is actually a textbook on machine learning meant for hackers.