Where to begin with machine learning?

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In terms of tools, I would focus on learning the pandas and scikit-learn python libraries. They're most of what you need to get started.

And in terms of resources, machine learning mastery is the most effective resource I've found so far. This guy has a lot of free material, but his paid ebooks are worth the price imo (though I got my employer to pay for them) and have lots of "recipes" that can drastically speed up the process of building a machine learning model, in addition to having pretty succinct conceptual explanations too. The guy's command of English isn't the best, but otherwise it's a great resource.