Customer Review: After reading "Pattern Recognition using Neural Networks" written by the same author, I was expecting a book of the same league: strong emphasis on the conceptual foundations, and a distillation of the great ideas of a field that is enjoying a great deal of research. However, I was greatly... more info
Customer Review: It is a very clear and easy reading 'machine learning' book to read, but its not a 'data mining' book. Everyone in the industry agrees that over 80% of your time and effort is in the data preparation, yet this book has virtually no mention of data transformations or data preparation. It is a... more info
Customer Review: I was recently asked by the publisher to review Collective Intelligence in Action. The author is Satnam Alag, a Bay area engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Alag is VP of NextBio, a specialized search engine. The first chapter is free and so is the source code... more info
Customer Review: This book has unbelievably clear explanations. Actually it is so good that it makes the lecturer superfluous. For years I felt I did not really understand the proof of the Cook Levin theorem. Sure, I had Garey and Johnson, and I more or less could follow the proof, but I wouldn't have been able to... more info
Customer Review: This book is quite good if you are interested in NLP.
If the could author provide a CD with some demos,source codes and applications, it, the reader can understand the contend in this book easier.
This course is really realy difficult.
Customer Review: This is not my favorite machine learning book, but Tom Mitchell did us all a favor by writing it. It covers the breadth of topics that make up the machine learning discipline fairly completely. Since this book is about completely, there is also a shallowness, but that shallowness does not trim out... more info
Customer Review: This was one of the few books that included a very clear and extensive treatment of information extraction techniques. There were plenty of diagrams which is great for a visual learner. All the techniques are explained using both plain English and formulas, so that you can pick up the scientific... more info
Customer Review: This is a well written book, code is easy to download, and a number of topics. All in all though, the writing is clear and easily understood so it's well worth the money...