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What are some good books for machine learning if one is starting from the ground?

I am trying to learn machine learning and as maths is an integral part of this, especially statistics, I want to know the names of some foundation books on these chapters.

11th Feb 2019, 7:46 AM
Vishal Sharma
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Bonjour
29th Apr 2019, 10:50 AM
bouye Mouhamed
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The Hundred Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov: http://themlbook.com Although it's focused on algorithms, not on statistics.
12th Feb 2019, 9:29 AM
Kuba Siekierzyński
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There are tons of introductory ML books on from Packt and they periodically have free offers too. Check this link every day. https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning
12th Feb 2019, 6:04 AM
Tibor Santa
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Well the best book for beginners is; Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems by Aurélien Géron it's very good and easy for beginners
24th Feb 2019, 10:22 AM
Michael Murimi
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At cognitive.ai there is a free MOOC, Machine Learning in Python, made by IBM and almost equivalent to their specialization on coursera.org. I know it is not a book, but books most of the time send me asleep wjen I finally have time for them. Furthermore, here you have coding exercices!
25th Feb 2019, 6:55 PM
Antonio Ferraro
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If you dont already know the maths, certain aspects of machine learning can be somewhat difficult to grasp - particularly the statistical Inference aspects of machine learning (linear models, support vectors machines, PCA, gaussian processes and kernel smoothing etc.). Using machine learning as a black box is dangerous. Having said this, if you understand statistics and linear algebra, you should be fine to check out Introductory ML books with Python, as Sascha Walliser has suggested. But for more theoretical applications of machine learning (once you know the maths) are books like Chris Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, and Jerome H Friedman: Elements Of Statisical Learning. A great introduction to statistical Inference (a sort of precursor to full on Machine Learning) is Gareth James: An Introduction To Statistical Learning which gives a good introduction to the maths.
21st Apr 2019, 4:40 PM
Nomad
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I would suggest Machine Learning for Beginners by John Slavio. It's just 60 pages book and in easy to understand language.
15th Feb 2019, 8:02 AM
Aniruddha Gohil
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What is the sole purpose of machine learning
29th Apr 2019, 1:08 AM
Favour Ogolo
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Machine learning is a collection of statistical data analysis methods, that you can apply to data. With this toolset a data scientist can identify relationships and dependencies between certain variables (data points), building up mathematical models. These can be used also to predict results applied to new (and eventually totally different) data.
29th Apr 2019, 8:27 AM
Tibor Santa
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Is python the best and easy to start with or Java
29th Apr 2019, 6:07 PM
GABFORD-TECH
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Seconding the slavio book!
15th Feb 2019, 12:15 PM
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What is the advantages of learning machine language and what will I learn from it?
21st Apr 2019, 7:10 AM
Sumeet
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What is machine language
24th Apr 2019, 6:51 PM
Ray Henry
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In simple terms, Machine Learning is a kind of AI which gives a computer the ability to learn from it's experience (well usually data given by programmers).
25th Apr 2019, 2:05 AM
Taabeer Murtaza
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Exactly this question (WHAT IS MACHINE LANGUAGE)
28th Apr 2019, 5:37 PM
GABFORD-TECH
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29th Apr 2019, 9:06 AM
Sebastian Keßler
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Test the technique used for manipulating output targets in machine learning
18th May 2019, 11:25 AM
Ashwini grace
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expalin about mcnn in machine learning
18th May 2019, 11:25 AM
Ashwini grace
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Please who can share with me eBook on Machine Learning for Beginners by John Slavio
1st Mar 2020, 4:44 PM
ejike david ugwuanyi
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Hello
29th Nov 2024, 12:42 PM
Adamu Haruna
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