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Introduction
Machine Learning has granted incredible power to humans. The power to run tasks
in automated manner, the power to make our lives comfrotable,the power to
improve things continuously by studying decisions at large sacle. And the power to
create species who think better than humans.

Dont believe me? Read what Googles CEO Mr. Sundar Pichai had to say last week:

Machine learning is a core, transformative way by which were


rethinking everything were doing, Pichai said. Were thoughtfully
applying it across all our products, be it search, ads, YouTube, or Play.
Were in the early days, but youll see us in a systematic way think
about how we can apply machine learning to all these areas.

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google

Those who know of these advancements, are keen to master thisconcept,


including me. When I started with this mission, I found various form of digitized
study material. They seemed promising, comprehensive, yet lacked a perspective.
My curiosity didnt let me rest for long. I resorted to Books.

Dont you read books? Oh! I see, you dont get time. Right? Must be a busy man,
perhaps!

When Elon Musk, the busiest man of planet right now, was asked about his secret
of success, he replied, I used to read books. A LOT. Later, Kimbal Musk, Elons
brother said, He would even complete two books in a day.


The phenomenon of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, isthoroughly
covered in the books mentioned below.
In this article, Ive listed the best books on Machine Learning and Artificial
Intelligence. Books are in no order. The motive of this article is not to promote any
particular book, but you make you aware of a world whichexists beyond video
tutorials, blogs and podcasts.

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Machine Learning
Programming Collective Intelligence (http://amzn.to/2jcT9W2)
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Programming Collective Intelligence, PCI as it is popularly


known, is one of the best books to start learning machine
learning.If there is one book to choose on machine
learning it is this one. I havent met a data scientist yet
who has read this book and does not recommend to keep it
on your bookshelf. A lot of them have re-read this book
multiple times.

The book was written long before data science and machine learning acquiredthe
cult status they have today but the topics and chapters are entirely relevant even
today! Some of the topics covered in the book are collaborative filtering
techniques, search engine features, Bayesian filtering and Support vector
machines. If you dont have a copy of this book order it as soon as you finish
reading this article! The book uses Python to deliver machine learning in a
fascinating manner.

Machine Learning for Hackers (http://amzn.to/2j7eH2k)


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This book is written by Drew Conway and John Myles


White. It is majorly based on data analysis in R. This books
is best suited for beginners having basic knowledge on R. It
further covers the use of advanced R in data wrangling. It
has interesting case studies which will help you to
understand the importance of using machine learning algorithms.

Machine Learning by Tom M Mitchell (http://amzn.to/2idWtvP)


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After youve read the above books, you are good to dive
into machine learning. This is a great introductory book on
machine learning. Itprovides a nice overview of ml
theoremswith pseudocode summaries of their algorithms.
Apart from case studies,Tom has used basic examples to

help you understand these algorithms easily.
Free PDF Link: Download
(http://personal.disco.unimib.it/Vanneschi/McGrawHill_-_Machine_Learning_-Tom_Mitchell.pd

The Elements of Statistical Learning (http://amzn.to/2jd6L3L)


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This book is written by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani,


Jerome Friedman. This book aptly explains the machine
learning algorithms mathematically from a statistical
perspective. It provides a powerful world created by
statistics and machine learning. This books lays emphasis
on mathematical derivations to define the underlying logic
behind an algorithm. This book demands a rudimentary understanding of linear
algebra.

Free PDF Link: Download (http://www-


stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/printings/ESLII_print10.pdf)

Learning from Data (http://amzn.to/2iE7M3H)


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This book is written byYaser Abu Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail and Hsuan-Tien

Lin. This book provides a perfect introduction to machine learning.This book
prepares you to understand complex areas of machine learning. Yaser has
provided to the point explanations instead of lengthy and
go-around explanations. If you choose this book, Id suggest
you to refer to online tutorials
(https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html) of Yaser Abu
Mostafa as well. Theyre awesome.

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (http://amzn.to/2idUhVj)


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This book is written by Christopher M Bishop. This book


serves as a excellent referencefor students keen to
understand the use of statistical techniques in machine
learning and pattern recognition. This books assumes the
knowledge of linear algebra and multivariate calculus. It
provides a comprehensiveintroduction to statistical pattern recognition techniques
using practice exercises.

Free PDF Link: Download


(http://www.rmki.kfki.hu/~banmi/elte/Bishop%20-%20Pattern%20Recognition%20and%20Mach


Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (http://amzn.to/2jd5KZc)
Who else might be the best coach to learn AI than Peter
Norvig? You have to take a course from Norvig to
understand his style of teaching. But once you do, you will
long for it!

This book is written by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. It is


best suitedfor people new to A.I. More than just providing
an overview of artificial intelligence,this bookthoroughly
covers subjects from search algorithms, reducing problems
to search problems, working with logic, planning, and more advanced topics in AI
such as reasoning with partial observability, machine learning and language
processing. Make it the first book on A.I in your book shelf.

Free PDF Link: Download (http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~tfl2/artificial-intelligence-


modern-approach.9780131038059.25368.pdf)

Artificial Intelligence for Humans (http://amzn.to/2ie0d0k)

This book is written by Jeff Heaton. It teaches basic artificial


intelligence algorithms such asdimensionality, distance
metrics, clustering, error calculation, hill climbing, Nelder
Mead, and linear regression. It explains these algorithms
using interesting examples and cases. Needless to say, this
book requires good commands over mathematics.
Otherwise, youll have tough time deciphering the
equations.

Paradigm of Artificial Intelligence Programming


(http://amzn.to/2jd8OEL)

Another one by Peter Norvig!

This book teaches advanced common lisp techniques to


build major A.I systems. It delves deep into the practical
aspects of A.I and teaches its readers the method to build
and debug robust practical programs. It also demonstrates
superior programming style and essential AI concepts. Id
recommend reading this book, if you are serious about a career in A.I specially.

Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (http://amzn.to/2ie0znZ)


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This book is written by Nils J Nilsson. After reading the


above 3 books, youd like something which could
challenge your mind. Heres what you are looking for. This
books covers topics such asNeural networks, genetic
programming, computer vision, heuristic search,
knowledge representation and reasoning, Bayes networks
and explains them with great ease. I wouldnt recommend this book for a beginner.
However, its a must read for advanced level user.


The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence
and the Future of Human Mind (http://amzn.to/2iSGqUU)
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This book is written by Marvin Minsky. In this book, Marvin


offers a fascinating model of how our mind works. He tries
to infer the future of human mind by examining different
forms of mind activity. Youll find path breaking research
findings where Marvin has challenge the status quo. This
book is great to develop perspective and become aware of
present to future transition of A.I

Artificial Intelligence (3rd Edition) (http://amzn.to/2iSOgy0)


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This book is written by Patrick Henry Winston. This is an


introductory book on artificial intelligence. Non-
programmers can easily understand the explanations and
concepts. More advanced AI topics are covered but havent
been explained in depth. However some chapters, do
cover a great deal of information. It teaches to build intelligent systems using
various real life examples. All in all, this bookimpartsa new shape to complicated
intelligence with simple explanation.


Disclosure: The amazon links in this article are affiliate links. If you buy a book
through this link, we would get paid through Amazon. This is one of the ways for us
to cover our costs while we continue to create these awesome articles. Further, the
list reflects our recommendation based on content of book and is no way
influenced by the commission.

End Notes
While compiling this list of books, I found the link of some of their legal pdfs
uploaded by their authors. Ive shared the links if you would want that (added
above). In these books, the authors have not only explained the ML concepts
precisely, but also mentionedtheir perspective and experiences using those
concepts, which you would have missed otherwise!

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Arun Sundar S says:
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OCTOBER 26, 2015 AT 4:15 AM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/BLOG/2015/10/READ-BOOKS-FOR-
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Really good. It would be great if the pdf links are shared..

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Thanks. Ill compile the links and share them with you shortly.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015 AT 4:27 AM (HTTPS://WWW.ANALYTICSVIDHYA.COM/BLOG/2015/10/READ-BOOKS-FOR-
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Please paste the link of some of their legal pdfs uploaded by their authors.

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Ill compile the links and share them with you shortly. may be in a google drive.

GRT says:
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Please mail me the links of the pdfs of these books and any other data science
related books materials which you have.
It would be great and a treasure house if these are uploaded in a drive and
granted access.

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Loved your suggestion. Im working on it. Ill share the link as soon as pdf links
are compiled.

Navneeth says:
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I second DK Samuels comment. A reputed site like AV should be sharing only


those (free) PDFs which are made available by the authors or publishers (e.g.
ESL by Hastie et al.).

Analytics Vidhya Content Team says:


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Agree with your suggestion. Ive already mentioned this part in the end notes
section.

Henderake says:
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Great article! By the way, there are actually 3 authors for Learning from Data,
not only Prof. Yaser Abu Mostafa. You forgot to mention the other 2 authors.

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I missed them! My Bad. Thank you so much for highlighting this error, I would
have never known otherwise. Appreciate it.
Added now.

Trinadh says:
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Quite helpful information on Machine Learning. Do share the links to PDFs.
ezequielm says:
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Hi. Thanks for this useful post, especially for beginers. Itll be great if you can
share those pdfs.

Ishan says:
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Quite fascinating list, please share the links for legal pdfs uploaded by their
authors.. And would it be possible to compile the list of books on
Business/Data Analytics.

Deniz Appelbaum says:


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Thanks for this great list! Could you share the pdfs please?

Pankesh (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/pbamotra/) says:


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I think some of the more honourable mentions are Kevin Murphys Machine
Learning, Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart, et, al and Hal Daumes A course
in Machine learning.

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Hello all,

I have added the pdf download links below their respective books in this
article. Keep Learning Machine Learning and AI.
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Id recommend An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R


by James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani before The Elements of Statistical
Learning. I wouldnt consider the latter an intro book.

Deepak Gupta says:


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What do you think about Applied Predictive Modeling?

Robin White says:


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After you study machine learning by yourself by reading book, you might need
to study some practical exercises to be better. I would recommend to take the
machine leaning courses that I took, because it covered almost everything that
I wanted. http://www.thedevmasters.com/machine-learning-in-python/
(http://www.thedevmasters.com/machine-learning-in-python/)

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One great ML book that is not in your list: ML A probabilistic perspective by


Kevin P Murphy

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I am beginners with the basic knowledge on python and want to work more on
ML.

I do not know the right direction. Please share me ur thoughts as a beginners


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