The numerati
by Stephen Baker · first published 2008
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"The Numerati" shows how a powerful new endeavor--the mathematical modeling of humanity--stands to transform everyone's daily life.
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Try the book Numerati by Stephen Baker that talks about current business/government/military applications of the data mining and machine learning practices http://www.amazon.com/Numerati-Stephen-Baker/dp/0618784608
on “Ask HN: How machine learning algorithms are helping to solve important problems?” ↗Stephen Baker's book, the Numerati, covers what data geeks are doing with stats, data mining, semantic analysis, machine learning... Here's a link to some of his talks on the subject: http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?catID=4
on “For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics” ↗