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Filed Under (Book Reviews, Machine Learning) by Aneesha on 14-08-2007
Programming Collective Intelligence is my “must have” book for 2007. I’ve been looking for a book that was able to explain machine learning, data mining and the related mathematics. I think I’ve found it! This book seems to cover just about everything including:
- Recommendations (Collaborative and Item based filtering)
- Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
- Clustering
- Searching and Ranking
- Decision Trees
- Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- Genetic Programming
I hope I finally understand the maths behind SVMs. I’m off to order the book. I’ll post a review soon…..
Comments
Roger on 17 August, 2007 at 7:21 pm #
The book does look like quite a mishmash of algorithms and techniques for data crunching collected user data without much substantial theory for guidance. But if your purpose is to simply apply a bunch of different such techniques until one seems to provide “good enough” insights for commerce purposes then this is probably more than adequate.
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