Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Textbook advice

2012-07-19 Thread Andreas Mueller
On 07/19/2012 06:25 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:42:25AM +0200, federico vaggi wrote: I was looking for suggestions for a good ML textbook - ideally one that has a heavy emphasis on applications and is based on Python. I don't know personally any that is based on Python.

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Textbook advice

2012-07-18 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:42:25AM +0200, federico vaggi wrote: > I was looking for suggestions for a good ML textbook - ideally one that has > a heavy emphasis on applications and is based on Python. I don't know personally any that is based on Python. My favorite machine learning book is 'The El

[Scikit-learn-general] Textbook advice

2012-07-18 Thread federico vaggi
Hi everyone, I was looking for suggestions for a good ML textbook - ideally one that has a heavy emphasis on applications and is based on Python. I have heard mixed reviews of: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspective-Recognition/dp/1420067184 and I was told that for pure th