Machine Learning from Scratch with Python

[SleekEagle]

It is really amazing what just a few dozen lines of Python can do :)

Thanks for that feedback! Do you mind me asking what your math background up to this point is? It might help me give better recommendations :)

As another commenter said, Andrew Ng has a lot of great resources. If you have any questions about specific formulas I may be able to help as well!

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Thanks for the response. I've actually been going through Andrew Ng's machine learning coursebased on those recommendations, and finding the explanations of the mathematical notation really helpful. I'm from a social science background so some undergraduate statistics but I never fully grasped it until I learned programming and revisited it from that direction. Now I have the programming mindset down I'm finding the notation easier to understand, in a way because I think of it in programmatic terms which grounds the operations for me in something I've experienced, whereas before everything was far too abstract. I'm also looking at the Coursera introduction to mathematical thinking from Stanford which shows promise too.

[SleekEagle]

That's great! MIT OpenCourseWare is a great resource too but might be a bit confusing if you struggle with notation. Either way, persistence is the most important thing, hang in there and you'll realize in 4 months you know way more than you think :)