To get the spirit of many of these techniques with practical examples in python using numpy/scipy check out the book "Machine Learning: An Algorithmic Perspective" by Stephen Marsland.  It doesn't have the mathematical depth or proofs found in these other books, but the code is decent and will get you started doing some basic data analysis.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspective-Recognition/dp/1420067184" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Algorithmic-Perspecti...</a><p>Code here:
<a href="http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/smarsland/MLbook.html" rel="nofollow">http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/smarsland/MLbook.html</a>