Brett Lantz

This is a very hands-on book written in an easy-to-understand language. It kept me engaged through all the chapters with code examples on many of the machine learning algorithms. I generally don't like books that spoon-feeds with all the information - leaving some room for self-exploration motivates the reader to learn more through other media. Though this book illustrated some excellent walkthroughs for most common ML algorithms, the last of the chapters pique reader's interest by providing leads regarding improving model performance and special machine learning topics.

Going through books like Statistics in Plain English and Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Predictive Data definitely helped me prepare for the coding aspects of the book.… (más)