Machine Learning for Hackers - A Book Review

John Defterios: I've known about you for many years. So your book machine learning for hackers was hugely useful for me back 10 years ago, because it allowed me to transition from an academic data science career. We found a lot of people that we knew who were software engineers by training who are working at companies in New York City. They're starting to get asked to build classification models or do forecasting models and use graph structures from a social media company to make some inference. And we knew that it would be incredibly challenging for someone in their day to day job to simply implement that without, you know, having to go back and read a deep technical textbook on how all the math works