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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
by Toby Segaran
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• An Eye Openning Inspiring Book
  I got more from this book than I have from any other book I read in the past couple of years!
  It covers in a streamlined form a huge array of algorithms powering the contemporary web - from recomendation engines to a search engine that includes as one of its features the Google PageRank algorithm, to some quite recent AI innovations.
  Just about the only area that was not covered was statistical machine translation. I wish he had done that, since that is my favourite subject.
  It helps you... more info

• Wow
  If you are interested in this topic, you should read this book. Disclaimer: I am new to the topic but appreciate when it is done well and need to understand how to implement it for my job. I was blown away by both the conceptual coverage and the implementation details. This book will allow you to cover the concepts on a first pass then come back and actually build the approaches you are most interested in. Even if you ultimately use a vendor product for recommendation, you will understand the algorithms... more info

• good but no great
  most people have shared their thoughts on the good of this book. I like to point out some of the bad as I read through:
  - first, too many typos - both the author and oreilly should do a better job on proof read the materials. the typos are so much that it can easily wreck otherwise good materials.
  - second, arcane solution and coding style. Many first step to the solution of machine learning is to represent the problem at hand well. The author's brain apparently wired different from mine so the... more info

• Great, simple presentation of some powerful techniques
  Programming Collective Intelligence is a book about applying data mining techniques to analyse collections of data. There is submerged information in Ebay prices, in Facebook profile networks, in collections of movie reviews, in news sites, in the stockmarket; this book by Toby Segaran shows ways to extract, visualise, understand, and predict that information.
  Each chapter explains and explores a different data mining algorithm, and builds up a working example in Python, while presenting different... more info

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