Programming Collective Intelligence

Build smart web applications that analyze and understand data through machine learning and statistics. With Programming Collective Intelligence, you can access datasets from other websites, collect data from your own applications, and draw conclusions about user experiences, marketing, and human behavior in general. This book covers collaborative filtering, clustering, search engine features, optimization algorithms, spam filtering, decision trees, support vector machines, and more using clear explanations and code examples. Don't settle for simple database applications – put the wealth of internet data to work for you.