Professor Andrew Ng and his team from University of Stanford provided free online lessons about machine learning. Students are provided video sessions and slide presentations in both PDF and PPTX, as well as some practical exercises.
You don’t even need to have a lot of Maths background, as the course has some introductory content on Algebra and other concepts that are needed to understand the more advanced lessons. Although the course is already finished, you can still register and watch the videos and download complete PDFs. Here is an overview of the course:
01. Introduction to Machine Learning 02. Linear regression with one variable 03. Linear algebra review 04. Linear regression with multiple variables 05. Octave Tutorial 06. Logistic regression 07. Regularization 08. Neural Networks: Representation 09. Neural Networks: Learning 10. Advice for Applying Machine Learning 11. Machine Learning System Design 12. Support Vector Machines 13. Clustering 14. Dimensionality Reduction 15. Anomaly Detection 16. Recommender Systems 17. Learning with Large Datasets 18. Application Example: Photo OCR
You can start yourself in machine learning today.
Go to http://www.ml-class.org/, register and take your time watching the videos and practicing.
A new class will start at 23rd January 2012 – signup now at http://jan2012.ml-class.org/