Where to start Machine Learning?

Solution 1:

You can start machine learning from Coursera Machine Learning

Solution 2:

Try to read Hastie, Tishirani, Friedman "Elements of Statistical Learning". It is a nice book. If you are specifically interested in unsupervised learning, then try the quite new Kogan "Introduction to Clustering Large and High Dimensional Data": algorithms are explicitly given.

Solution 3:

If you need some ideas for practical projects to immerse yourself into machine learning, you might be interested in looking at Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segeran.

Solution 4:

Coursera Machine Learning is one of the best places to start, but there are countless resources. There's a huge, wonderful open list of links at Github. I definitely recommend you take a look at it.

There are also another great resources online, like those I list below:

• In-depth introduction to machine learning in 15 hours of expert videos
• Deep Learning Tutorial (@ ufldl.Stanford.edu/tutorial/, can't post the link because I'm out of mana, I mean, not enough reputation yet).

Hope it helps!