{"id":5618,"date":"2013-12-08T23:31:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2013-12-08T23:31:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:31:26","slug":"a-programmers-guide-to-data-mining-the-ancient-art-of-the-numerati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/a-programmers-guide-to-data-mining-the-ancient-art-of-the-numerati\/","title":{"rendered":"A Programmer&#039;s Guide to Data Mining &#124; The Ancient Art of the Numerati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A guide to practical data mining, collective intelligence, and building recommendation systems by\u00a0Ron Zacharski.<br \/>\nAbout This Book<br \/>\nBefore you is a tool for learning basic data mining techniques. Most data mining textbooks focus on providing a theoretical foundation for data mining, and as result, may seem notoriously difficult to understand. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the information in those books is extremely important. However, if you are a programmer interested in learning a bit about data mining you might be interested in a beginner\u2019s hands-on guide as a first step. That\u2019s what this book provides.<br \/>\nThis guide follows a learn-by-doing approach. Instead of passively reading the book, I encourage you to work through the exercises and experiment with the Python code I provide. I hope you will be actively involved in trying out and programming data mining techniques. The textbook is laid out as a series of small steps that build on each other until, by the time you complete the book, you have laid the foundation for understanding data mining techniques. This book is available for download for free under a Creative Commons license (see link in footer). You are free to share the book, and remix it. Someday I may offer a paper copy, but the online version will always be free.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/guidetodatamining.com\/\">A Programmer&#8217;s Guide to Data Mining | The Ancient Art of the Numerati<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guide to practical data mining, collective intelligence, and building recommendation systems by\u00a0Ron Zacharski. About This Book Before you is a tool for learning basic data mining techniques. Most data mining textbooks focus on providing a theoretical foundation for data mining, and as result, may seem notoriously difficult to understand. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/08\/a-programmers-guide-to-data-mining-the-ancient-art-of-the-numerati\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Programmer&#039;s Guide to Data Mining &#124; The Ancient Art of the Numerati&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}