Collective intelligence in action
by Satnam Alag · first published 2008
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Some other helpful books: - Data Mining, by Witten and Franke; describes basics , how to use Weka, which they wrote a couple java-based books from Manning: - Collective Intelligence in Action (by Satnam Alag) and - Algorithms of the Intelligent Web (Marmanis, Babenko)
on “Ask HN: Building a domain-specific search engine. Advice, experiences?” ↗…Witten and Franke; describes basics with rigor, including how to use Weka, which they wrote http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Manag... a couple java-based books from Manning: - Collective Intelligence in Action (by Satnam Alag) and - Algorithms of the Intelligen Web (Marmanis, Babenko) -
on “Ask HN: Statistics for hackers?” ↗…amazon's Bought This Item Also Bought" blurb are more rigorous, and quite useful books, also covering topics like Lucene/SOLR with full java code listsings: Algorithms of the Intelligent Web by H. Marmanis Collective Intelligence in Action by Satnam Alag
on “Ask HN: I want to learn statistics and data mining” ↗…programming language standpoint. Check out http://mloss.org/software/ also. Some good books to get started with include: Algorithms of the Intelligent Web[4] Programming Collective Intelligence[5] Collective Intelligence In Action[6] Stanford make a great series of lectures[7] available online that you might find useful. [1]: http://mahout.apache.org/ [2]: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/ [3]: http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/…
on “Advice for AI aspirations?” ↗Strong upvote on that book list. If you want to learn from scratch, start with the "Programming Collective Intelligence" book, then move to "Collective intelligence in action", they're both quite good. If you've covered and understand the material in both, you're probably ready to consider moving to some of the more academic texts.
on “Ask HN: How do technologies like Farecast (now bing) and Flightcaster work?” ↗I also bougth collective intelligence in action and algorithms of the intelligent web. Both are books from manning.com. I love those 2 books more than programming collective intelligence because I find them more complete and as easy to read.
on “A Good Read: Machine Learning and Web2.0” ↗Excellent, many thanks. I've read O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. It's a great introductory survey, but it was very light on theory. I also own Collective Intelligence in Action. It had more explanation of theory than O'Reilly's offering, but most of the chapters devolved into how to use Java data mining framework X.
on “Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers” ↗