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Sunday 11 August 2024

Machine Learning Books

 

The Complete Machine Learning Bookshelf.

Books are a fantastic investment. You get years of experience for tens of dollars.

I love books and I read every machine learning book I can get my hands on.

I think having good references is the fastest way to getting good answers to your machine learning questions, and having multiple books can give you multiple perspectives on tough questions.

In this guide, you will discover the top books on machine learning.

There are many reasons to want and read machine learning books. For this reason, I have grouped and listed machine learning books a number of different ways, for example:

  • By Type: Textbooks, Popular Science, etc.
  • By Topic: Python, Deep Learning, etc.
  • By Publisher: Packt, O’Reilly, etc.

And much more.

All books are linked to on Amazon so that you can learn more about it and even grab it immediately.

I will keep this guide updated, bookmark it and check back regularly.

Let’s get started.

How to Use This Guide

  1. Find a topic or theme that interests you the most.
  2. Browse the books in your chosen section.
  3. Purchase the book.
  4. Read it cover-to-cover.
  5. Repeat.

Owning a book is not the same as knowing its contents. Read the books you buy.

Have you read any machine learning books?
Share your what you have read in the comments below.

Machine Learning Books By Type

Popular Science Machine Learning Books

This is a list of popular science machine learning books aimed at a general audience.

They give a flavor of the benefits of machine learning or data science without the theory or application detail. I’ve also thrown in some relevant “statistical thinking” pop science books that I enjoyed.

A top pick from this list is: The Signal and the Noise.

The Signal and the Noise- Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t

The Signal and the Noise- Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t

A counter to the optimizing in these books is Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.

Beginner Machine Learning Books

This is a lost of machine learning books intended for beginners.

There is a flavor of the benefits of applied machine learning seen in pop science books (previous) and the beginnings of implementation detail seen more in introductory books (below).

A top pick from this list might be: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques.

Data Mining- Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

Data Mining- Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques

Introductory Machine Learning Books

Below is a list of the top books for beginners that may be in an undergraduate course or developers looking to make their start.

They cover a wide range of machine learning topics focusing on the how rather than the theory and “why” of the methods.

A top pick from this list might be: An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning- with Applications in R

An Introduction to Statistical Learning- with Applications in R

Machine Learning Textbooks

Below is a list of the top machine learning textbooks. These are the books you will use in a graduate machine learning course, covering a wind range of methods and the theory behind them.

A top pick from this might be: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Machine Learning Books By Topic

Machine Learning With R

List of books on applied machine learning with the R platform.

A top pick from this list is: Applied Predictive Modeling.

Applied Predictive Modeling

Applied Predictive Modeling

Machine Learning With Python

List of top books on applied machine learning with the Python and SciPy platforms.

A top pick from this list is probably: Python Machine Learning.

Python Machine Learning

Python Machine Learning

Deep Learning

List of books on deep learning. There are few good books to choose from at the moment, so I have gone for quantity over quality.

The clear top pick is from this list is: Deep Learning.

Deep Learning

Deep Learning

Time Series Forecasting

List of top books on time series forecasting.

The applied side of time series forecasting is dominated by the R platform at the moment

A top introductory book is Forecasting: principles and practice.

Forecasting- principles and practice

Forecasting- principles and practice

Machine Learning Books By Publisher

There are three publishers that have gone after machine learning hard and are really cranking out books.

They are: O’Reilly, Manning and Packt.

Their focus is on applied books and the quality of books on that list does vary greatly, from well designed and edited, to a bunch of blog posts stabled together.

O’Reilly Machine Learning Books

O’Reilly have 100s of books related to their “data” initiative, many of which are related to machine learning.

I cannot possibly list them all, see the related links. Below are a few best sellers.

The book Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications might have launched this direction and has been popular for a long time.

Programming Collective Intelligence- Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Programming Collective Intelligence- Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

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Manning Machine Learning Books

Manning books are practical and of a reasonable quality. They don’t have a catalog of 100s of books (yet) like O’Reilly and Packt.

The stand-out in the Manning catalog is Machine Learning in Action perhaps again because it may have been the first in their catalog on machine learning.

Machine Learning in Action

Machine Learning in Action

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Packt Machine Learning Books

It feels like Packt have gone all in on data science and machine learning books.

They have titles on a large range of esoteric libraries and multiple books on popular topics like R and Python.

Below are some of the more popular titles.

Additional Resources

Below are some of the resources that I used to compile this guide as well as additional lists of machine learning books that you may find useful.

Summary

I have tried to compile the largest and most complete list of machine learning books.

Have you read one or more of the books in this guide? Which ones and what did you think of them?

Did you buy a new book? Which one?

Did I miss a great machine learning book, let me know in the comments below.

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