This book is not a text book, so it doesn't teach you a lot of the math behind these algorithms. The classic text book in this area is called introduction to algarit s by corman and his co author,. It's more reference quality material. If you want to get more into the machine learning type of stuff we talk about in the book, like cameans, clustering in your old networks, then the machine learning course on corsaira has become kind of a standard that a lot of people go through.