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Introduction

Machine Learning Course by Andrew Ng (Stanford University)
AI/ML YouTube Courses
Curated List of Machine Learning Resources
In-depth introduction to machine learning in 15 hours of expert videos
An Introduction to Statistical Learning
List of Machine Learning University Courses
Machine Learning for Software Engineers
Dive into Machine Learning
A curated list of awesome Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software
A curated list of awesome data visualization libraries and resources.
An awesome Data Science repository to learn and apply for real world problems
The Open Source Data Science Masters
Machine Learning FAQs on Cross Validated
Machine Learning algorithms that you should always have a strong understanding of
Difference between Linearly Independent, Orthogonal, and Uncorrelated Variables
List of Machine Learning Concepts
Slides on Several Machine Learning Topics
MIT Machine Learning Lecture Slides
Comparison Supervised Learning Algorithms
Learning Data Science Fundamentals
Machine Learning mistakes to avoid
Statistical Machine Learning Course
TheAnalyticsEdge edX Notes and Codes
Have Fun With Machine Learning
Twitter's Most Shared #machineLearning Content From The Past 7 Days
Grokking Machine Learning

Interview Resources

41 Essential Machine Learning Interview Questions (with answers)
How can a computer science graduate student prepare himself for data scientist interviews?
How do I learn Machine Learning?
FAQs about Data Science Interviews
What are the key skills of a data scientist?
The Big List of DS/ML Interview Resources

Artificial Intelligence

Awesome Artificial Intelligence (GitHub Repo)
edX course | Klein & Abbeel
Udacity Course | Norvig & Thrun
TED talks on AI
  • UC Berkeley CS188 Intro to AI, Lecture Videos, 2

  • Programming Community Curated Resources for learning Artificial Intelligence

  • MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos, Complete Course

Genetic Algorithms

Genetic Algorithms Wikipedia Page
Genetic Algorithms vs Artificial Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms Explained in Plain English
Genetic Programming
  • Simple Implementation of Genetic Algorithms in Python (Part 1), Part 2

    • Genetic Programming in Python (GitHub)

    • Genetic Alogorithms vs Genetic Programming (Quora), StackOverflow

Statistics

Stat Trek Website

A dedicated website to teach yourselves Statistics

Learn Statistics Using Python

Learn Statistics using an application-centric programming approach

Statistics for Hackers | Slides | @jakevdp

Slides by Jake VanderPlas

Online Statistics Book

An Interactive Multimedia Course for Studying Statistics

What is a Sampling Distribution?
What is an Unbiased Estimator?
Goodness of Fit Explained
What are QQ Plots?
OpenIntro Statistics

Free PDF textbook

  • Tutorials

    • AP Statistics Tutorial

    • Statistics and Probability Tutorial

    • Matrix Algebra Tutorial

Useful Blogs

Edwin Chen's Blog

A blog about Math, stats, ML, crowdsourcing, data science

The Data School Blog

Data science for beginners!

ML Wave

A blog for Learning Machine Learning

Andrej Karpathy

A blog about Deep Learning and Data Science in general

Colah's Blog

Awesome Neural Networks Blog

Alex Minnaar's Blog

A blog about Machine Learning and Software Engineering

Statistically Significant

Andrew Landgraf's Data Science Blog

Simply Statistics

A blog by three biostatistics professors

Yanir Seroussi's Blog

A blog about Data Science and beyond

fastML

Machine learning made easy

Trevor Stephens Blog

Trevor Stephens Personal Page

no free hunch | kaggle

The Kaggle Blog about all things Data Science

A Quantitative Journey | outlace

learning quantitative applications

r4stats

analyze the world of data science, and to help people learn to use R

Variance Explained

David Robinson's Blog

AI Junkie

a blog about Artificial Intellingence

Deep Learning Blog by Tim Dettmers

Making deep learning accessible

Adam Geitgey

Easiest Introduction to machine learning

Ethen's Notebook Collection

Continuously updated machine learning documentations (mainly in Python3). Contents include educational implementation of machine learning algorithms from scratch and open-source library usage

  • J Alammar's Blog- Blog posts about Machine Learning and Neural Nets

Resources on Quora

Most Viewed Machine Learning writers
Data Science Topic on Quora
William Chen's Answers
Michael Hochster's Answers
Ricardo Vladimiro's Answers
Storytelling with Statistics
Data Science FAQs on Quora
Machine Learning FAQs on Quora

Kaggle Competitions WriteUp

How to almost win Kaggle Competitions
Convolution Neural Networks for EEG detection
Facebook Recruiting III Explained
Predicting CTR with Online ML
How to Rank 10% in Your First Kaggle Competition

Cheat Sheets

Machine Learning Cheat Sheet
ML Compiled
  • Probability Cheat Sheet,
    Source

Classification

Does Balancing Classes Improve Classifier Performance?
What is Deviance?
When to choose which machine learning classifier?
What are the advantages of different classification algorithms?
An introduction to ROC analysis
Simple guide to confusion matrix terminology
  • ROC and AUC Explained (related video)

Linear Regression

General
Residual Analysis
Outliers
Elastic Net
  • Assumptions of Linear Regression, Stack Exchange

    • Linear Regression Comprehensive Resource

    • Applying and Interpreting Linear Regression

    • What does having constant variance in a linear regression model mean?

    • Difference between linear regression on y with x and x with y

    • Is linear regression valid when the dependant variable is not normally distributed?

  • Multicollinearity and VIF

    • Dummy Variable Trap | Multicollinearity

    • Dealing with multicollinearity using VIFs

    • Interpreting plot.lm() in R

    • How to interpret a QQ plot?

    • Interpreting Residuals vs Fitted Plot

    • How should outliers be dealt with?

    • Regularization and Variable Selection via the
      Elastic Net

Logistic Regression

Logistic Regression Wiki
Geometric Intuition of Logistic Regression
Obtaining predicted categories (choosing threshold)
Residuals in logistic regression
Guide to an in-depth understanding of logistic regression
  • Difference between logit and probit models, Logistic Regression Wiki, Probit Model Wiki

  • Pseudo R2 for Logistic Regression, How to calculate, Other Details

Model Validation using Resampling

Partioning data set in R
  • Resampling Explained

  • Implementing hold-out Validaion in R, 2

  • Cross Validation
    • How to use cross-validation in predictive modeling

    • Training with Full dataset after CV?

    • Which CV method is best?

    • Variance Estimates in k-fold CV

    • Is CV a subsitute for Validation Set?

    • Choice of k in k-fold CV

    • CV for ensemble learning

    • k-fold CV in R

    • Good Resources

    • Overfitting and Cross Validation

      • Preventing Overfitting the Cross Validation Data | Andrew Ng

      • Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance Evaluation

      • CV for detecting and preventing Overfitting

      • How does CV overcome the Overfitting Problem

  • Bootstrapping

    • Why Bootstrapping Works?

    • Good Animation

    • Example of Bootstapping

    • Understanding Bootstapping for Validation and Model Selection

    • Cross Validation vs Bootstrap to estimate prediction error, Cross-validation vs .632 bootstrapping to evaluate classification performance

Deep Learning

fast.ai - Practical Deep Learning For Coders
fast.ai - Cutting Edge Deep Learning For Coders
A curated list of awesome Deep Learning tutorials, projects and communities
Lots of Deep Learning Resources
Core Concepts of Deep Learning
Understanding Natural Language with Deep Neural Networks Using Torch
Stanford Deep Learning Tutorial
Deep Learning FAQs on Quora
Google+ Deep Learning Page
Where to Learn Deep Learning?
Deep Learning nvidia concepts
Deep Learning Software List
Hacker's guide to Neural Nets
Top arxiv Deep Learning Papers explained
Geoff Hinton Youtube Vidoes on Deep Learning
Awesome Deep Learning Reading List
deeplearning Tutorials
AWESOME! Deep Learning Tutorial
Deep Learning Basics
Intuition Behind Backpropagation
Stanford Tutorials
Train, Validation & Test in Artificial Neural Networks
Artificial Neural Networks Tutorials
Neural Networks FAQs on Stack Overflow
Deep Learning Tutorials on deeplearning.net
Neural Networks and Deep Learning Online Book
Recursive Neural Network (not Recurrent)
  • Deep Learning Papers Reading Roadmap

  • Interesting Deep Learning and NLP Projects (Stanford), Website

  • Recent Reddit AMAs related to Deep Learning, Another AMA

  • Introduction to Deep Learning Using Python (GitHub), Good Introduction Slides

  • Video Lectures Oxford 2015, Video Lectures Summer School Montreal

  • Deep Learning Comprehensive Website, Software

  • Neural Machine Translation

    • Machine Translation Reading List

    • Introduction to Neural Machine Translation with GPUs (part 1), Part 2, Part 3

    • Deep Speech: Accurate Speech Recognition with GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning

  • Deep Learning Frameworks

    • Torch vs. Theano

    • dl4j vs. torch7 vs. theano

    • Deep Learning Libraries by Language

    • Theano

      • Website

      • Theano Introduction

      • Theano Tutorial

      • Good Theano Tutorial

      • Logistic Regression using Theano for classifying digits

      • MLP using Theano

      • CNN using Theano

      • RNNs using Theano

      • LSTM for Sentiment Analysis in Theano

      • RBM using Theano

      • DBNs using Theano

      • All Codes

      • Deep Learning Implementation Tutorials - Keras and Lasagne

    • Torch

      • Torch ML Tutorial, Code

      • Intro to Torch

      • Learning Torch GitHub Repo

      • Awesome-Torch (Repository on GitHub)

      • Machine Learning using Torch Oxford Univ, Code

      • Torch Internals Overview

      • Torch Cheatsheet

      • Understanding Natural Language with Deep Neural Networks Using Torch

    • Caffe

      • Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Caffe and cuDNN
    • TensorFlow

      • Website

      • TensorFlow Examples for Beginners

      • Stanford Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research Course

        • GitHub Repo
      • Simplified Scikit-learn Style Interface to TensorFlow

      • Learning TensorFlow GitHub Repo

      • Benchmark TensorFlow GitHub

      • Awesome TensorFlow List

      • TensorFlow Book

      • Android TensorFlow Machine Learning Example

        • GitHub Repo
      • Creating Custom Model For Android Using TensorFlow

        • GitHub Repo
  • Feed Forward Networks

    • A Quick Introduction to Neural Networks

    • Implementing a Neural Network from scratch, Code

    • Speeding up your Neural Network with Theano and the gpu, Code

    • Basic ANN Theory

    • Role of Bias in Neural Networks

    • Choosing number of hidden layers and nodes,2,3

    • Backpropagation in Matrix Form

    • ANN implemented in C++ | AI Junkie

    • Simple Implementation

    • NN for Beginners

    • Regression and Classification with NNs (Slides)

    • Another Intro

  • Recurrent and LSTM Networks
    • awesome-rnn: list of resources (GitHub Repo)

    • Recurrent Neural Net Tutorial Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Code

    • NLP RNN Representations

    • The Unreasonable effectiveness of RNNs, Torch Code, Python Code

    • Intro to RNN, LSTM

    • An application of RNN

    • Optimizing RNN Performance

    • Simple RNN

    • Auto-Generating Clickbait with RNN

    • Sequence Learning using RNN (Slides)

    • Machine Translation using RNN (Paper)

    • Music generation using RNNs (Keras)

    • Using RNN to create on-the-fly dialogue (Keras)

    • Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)

      • Understanding LSTM Networks

      • LSTM explained

      • Beginner’s Guide to LSTM

      • Implementing LSTM from scratch, Python/Theano code

      • Torch Code for character-level language models using LSTM

      • LSTM for Kaggle EEG Detection competition (Torch Code)

      • LSTM for Sentiment Analysis in Theano

      • Deep Learning for Visual Q&A | LSTM | CNN, Code

      • Computer Responds to email using LSTM | Google

      • LSTM dramatically improves Google Voice Search, Another Article

      • Understanding Natural Language with LSTM Using Torch

      • Torch code for Visual Question Answering using a CNN+LSTM model

      • LSTM for Human Activity Recognition

    • Gated Recurrent Units (GRU)

      • LSTM vs GRU
    • Time series forecasting with Sequence-to-Sequence (seq2seq) rnn models

- [Recursive Neural Tensor Network (RNTN)](http://deeplearning4j.org/recursiveneuraltensornetwork.html)

- [word2vec, DBN, RNTN for Sentiment Analysis ](http://deeplearning4j.org/zh-sentiment_analysis_word2vec.html)
  • Restricted Boltzmann Machine

    • Beginner's Guide about RBMs

    • Another Good Tutorial

    • Introduction to RBMs

    • Hinton's Guide to Training RBMs

    • RBMs in R

    • Deep Belief Networks Tutorial

    • word2vec, DBN, RNTN for Sentiment Analysis

  • Autoencoders: Unsupervised (applies BackProp after setting target = input)

    • Andrew Ng Sparse Autoencoders pdf

    • Deep Autoencoders Tutorial

    • Denoising Autoencoders, Theano Code

    • Stacked Denoising Autoencoders

  • Convolutional Neural Networks

    • An Intuitive Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks

    • Awesome Deep Vision: List of Resources (GitHub)

    • Intro to CNNs

    • Understanding CNN for NLP

    • Stanford Notes, Codes, GitHub

    • JavaScript Library (Browser Based) for CNNs

    • Using CNNs to detect facial keypoints

    • Deep learning to classify business photos at Yelp

    • Interview with Yann LeCun | Kaggle

    • Visualising and Understanding CNNs

  • Network Representation Learning

    • Awesome Graph Embedding

    • Awesome Network Embedding

    • Network Representation Learning Papers

    • Knowledge Representation Learning Papers

    • Graph Based Deep Learning Literature

Natural Language Processing

A curated list of speech and natural language processing resources
Understanding Natural Language with Deep Neural Networks Using Torch
tf-idf explained
The Stanford NLP Group
NLP from Scratch | Google Paper
Graph Based Semi Supervised Learning for NLP
Bag of Words
Language learning with NLP and reinforcement learning
What would Shakespeare say (NLP Tutorial)
A closer look at Skip Gram Modeling
  • Interesting Deep Learning NLP Projects Stanford, Website

    • Classification text with Bag of Words
  • Topic Modeling
    • Topic Modeling Wikipedia

    • Probabilistic Topic Models Princeton PDF

    • LDA Wikipedia, LSA Wikipedia, Probabilistic LSA Wikipedia

    • What is a good explanation of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)?

    • Introduction to LDA, Another good explanation

    • The LDA Buffet - Intuitive Explanation

    • Your Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

    • Difference between LSI and LDA

    • Original LDA Paper

    • alpha and beta in LDA

    • Intuitive explanation of the Dirichlet distribution

    • topicmodels: An R Package for Fitting Topic Models

    • Topic modeling made just simple enough

    • Online LDA, Online LDA with Spark

    • LDA in Scala, Part 2

    • Segmentation of Twitter Timelines via Topic Modeling

    • Topic Modeling of Twitter Followers

    • Multilingual Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). (Tutorial here)

    • Deep Belief Nets for Topic Modeling

    • Gaussian LDA for Topic Models with Word Embeddings

    • Python

      • Series of lecture notes for probabilistic topic models written in ipython notebook
      • Implementation of various topic models in Python
  • word2vec

    • Google word2vec

    • Bag of Words Model Wiki

    • word2vec Tutorial

    • A closer look at Skip Gram Modeling

    • Skip Gram Model Tutorial, CBoW Model

    • Word Vectors Kaggle Tutorial Python, Part 2

    • Making sense of word2vec

    • word2vec explained on deeplearning4j

    • Quora word2vec

    • Other Quora Resources, 2, 3

    • word2vec, DBN, RNTN for Sentiment Analysis

  • Text Clustering

    • How string clustering works

    • Levenshtein distance for measuring the difference between two sequences

    • Text clustering with Levenshtein distances

  • Text Classification

    • Classification Text with Bag of Words
  • Named Entity Recognitation

    • Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER)

    • Named Entity Recognition: Applications and Use Cases- Towards Data Science

  • Kaggle Tutorial Bag of Words and Word vectors, Part 2, Part 3

Computer Vision

Awesome computer vision (github)
Awesome deep vision (github)

Support Vector Machine

Highest Voted Questions about SVMs on Cross Validated
Help me Understand SVMs!
SVM in Layman's terms
How does SVM Work | Comparisons
A tutorial on SVMs
Introductory Overview of SVMs
Optimization Algorithms in Support Vector Machines
Variable Importance from SVM
  • Practical Guide to SVC, Slides

  • Comparisons

    • SVMs > ANNs, ANNs > SVMs, Another Comparison

    • Trees > SVMs

    • Kernel Logistic Regression vs SVM

    • Logistic Regression vs SVM, 2, 3

  • Software

    • LIBSVM

    • Intro to SVM in R

  • Kernels

    • What are Kernels in ML and SVM?

    • Intuition Behind Gaussian Kernel in SVMs?

  • Probabilities post SVM

    • Platt's Probabilistic Outputs for SVM

    • Platt Calibration Wiki

    • Why use Platts Scaling

    • Classifier Classification with Platt's Scaling

Reinforcement Learning

Awesome Reinforcement Learning (GitHub)
  • RL Tutorial Part 1, Part 2

Decision Trees

Wikipedia Page - Lots of Good Info
FAQs about Decision Trees
Brief Tour of Trees and Forests
Tree Based Models in R
How Decision Trees work?
Weak side of Decision Trees
Thorough Explanation and different algorithms
What is entropy and information gain in the context of building decision trees?
Slides Related to Decision Trees
How do decision tree learning algorithms deal with missing values?
Using Surrogates to Improve Datasets with Missing Values
Good Article
Are decision trees almost always binary trees?
What is Deviance in context of Decision Trees?
Discover structure behind data with decision trees

Grow and plot a decision tree to automatically figure out hidden rules in your data

  • Pruning Decision Trees, Grafting of Decision Trees

  • Comparison of Different Algorithms

    • CART vs CTREE

    • Comparison of complexity or performance

    • CHAID vs CART , CART vs CHAID

    • Good Article on comparison

  • CART

    • Recursive Partitioning Wikipedia

    • CART Explained

    • How to measure/rank “variable importance” when using CART?

    • Pruning a Tree in R

    • Does rpart use multivariate splits by default?

    • FAQs about Recursive Partitioning

  • CTREE

    • party package in R

    • Show volumne in each node using ctree in R

    • How to extract tree structure from ctree function?

  • CHAID

    • Wikipedia Artice on CHAID

    • Basic Introduction to CHAID

    • Good Tutorial on CHAID

  • MARS

    • Wikipedia Article on MARS
  • Probabilistic Decision Trees

    • Bayesian Learning in Probabilistic Decision Trees

    • Probabilistic Trees Research Paper

Random Forest / Bagging

Awesome Random Forest (GitHub)**
How to tune RF parameters in practice?
Measures of variable importance in random forests
Compare R-squared from two different Random Forest models
OOB Estimate Explained | RF vs LDA
Evaluating Random Forests for Survival Analysis Using Prediction Error Curve
Why doesn't Random Forest handle missing values in predictors?
How to build random forests in R with missing (NA) values?
Obtaining knowledge from a random forest
  • FAQs about Random Forest, More FAQs

  • Some Questions for R implementation, 2, 3

Boosting

Boosting for Better Predictions
Introduction to Boosted Trees | Tianqi Chen
  • Boosting Wikipedia Page

  • Gradient Boosting Machine

    • Gradiet Boosting Wiki

    • Guidelines for GBM parameters in R, Strategy to set parameters

    • Meaning of Interaction Depth, 2

    • Role of n.minobsinnode parameter of GBM in R

    • GBM in R

    • FAQs about GBM

    • GBM vs xgboost

  • xgboost

    • xgboost tuning kaggle

    • xgboost vs gbm

    • xgboost survey

    • Practical XGBoost in Python online course (free)

  • AdaBoost

    • AdaBoost Wiki, Python Code

    • AdaBoost Sparse Input Support

    • adaBag R package

    • Tutorial

  • CatBoost

    • CatBoost Documentation

    • Benchmarks

    • Tutorial

    • GitHub Project

    • CatBoost vs. Light GBM vs. XGBoost

Ensembles

Wikipedia Article on Ensemble Learning
Kaggle Ensembling Guide
The Power of Simple Ensembles
Ensemble Learning Intro
Ensemble Learning Paper
Ensembling Models with caret
Bagging vs Boosting vs Stacking
Good Resources | Kaggle Africa Soil Property Prediction
Boosting vs Bagging
Resources for learning how to implement ensemble methods
How are classifications merged in an ensemble classifier?
  • Ensembling models with R, Ensembling Regression Models in R, Intro to Ensembles in R

Stacking Models

Stacking, Blending and Stacked Generalization
Stacked Generalization (Stacking)
Stacked Generalization: when does it work?
Stacked Generalization Paper

Vapnik–Chervonenkis Dimension

Wikipedia article on VC Dimension
Intuitive Explanantion of VC Dimension
Video explaining VC Dimension
Introduction to VC Dimension
FAQs about VC Dimension
Do ensemble techniques increase VC-dimension?

Bayesian Machine Learning

Bayesian Methods for Hackers (using pyMC)
Should all Machine Learning be Bayesian?
Tutorial on Bayesian Optimisation for Machine Learning
Bayesian Statistics Made Simple
Kalman & Bayesian Filters in Python
Markov Chain Wikipedia Page
  • Bayesian Reasoning and Deep Learning, Slides

Semi Supervised Learning

Wikipedia article on Semi Supervised Learning
Tutorial on Semi Supervised Learning
Graph Based Semi Supervised Learning for NLP
Taxonomy
Video Tutorial Weka
Unsupervised, Supervised and Semi Supervised learning
  • Research Papers 1, 2, 3

Optimization

Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization with R and Quadratic Programming
Algorithms for Sparse Optimization and Machine Learning
Optimization Algorithms for Data Analysis
Video Lectures on Optimization
Optimization Algorithms in Support Vector Machines
The Interplay of Optimization and Machine Learning Research
Hyperopt tutorial for Optimizing Neural Networks’ Hyperparameters
  • Optimization Algorithms in Machine Learning, Video Lecture

Other Tutorials

  • For a collection of Data Science Tutorials using R, please refer to this list.

  • For a collection of Data Science Tutorials using Python, please refer to this list.