Level-Up Your Machine Learning
Textbooks?  Really?<p>How about start with a great lecturer like -<p>Nando de Freitas - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0z_jCi0XWqI8awUuQRFnyw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0z_jCi0XWqI8awUuQRFnyw</a><p>David Mackay -<a href="http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_recognition/" rel="nofollow">http://videolectures.net/course_information_theory_pattern_r...</a><p>or the (sometimes too dense) Andrew Ng -
<a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/ml" rel="nofollow">https://www.coursera.org/course/ml</a>