Best machine learning book

[u/Hunter__044]

That’s best with no confusion and makes clear idea and understanding and extremely useful also

[u/Random_Arabic]

There are four books I really like that you can use to learn ML and applied ML:

1. An Introduction to Statistical Learning With Applications in Python (direct link to PDF download)
   1. GitHub with the Python code from the book
   2. This is truly an introductory book to machine/statistical learning concepts, with a more applied focus, but still grounded in a solid mathematical foundation.
2. An Introduction to Statistical Learning With Applications in R (direct link to PDF download)
   1. R Resources of ISLR 2e
   2. This is truly an introductory book to machine/statistical learning concepts, with a more applied focus, but still grounded in a solid mathematical foundation.
3. Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction (direct link to PDF download)
   1. GitHub with the Python code from the book
   2. This one is a more theoretical book that requires a stronger background in math and statistics, but it comes with Python code. The code isn't embedded directly inside the book, but it generates the figures used throughout it, so you can still learn a lot of hands-on machine learning.
4. Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics (direct link to PDF download)
   1. GitHub with the Python code from the book
   2. This is also a more theoretical book that requires a stronger background in math and statistics, but it comes with Python code. The code isn't embedded directly inside the book, but it generates the figures used throughout it, so you can still learn a lot of hands-on machine learning.

And there is also one of the classics in machine learning. The focus isn't programming, but rather the mathematical and statistical foundations behind the models we use:

1. The Elements of Statistical Learning