An Interview with John Foreman, Chief Data Scientist at MailChimp

If you want to learn the nitty-gritty of machine learning and optimization, I highly recommend his book, Data Smart:

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Smart-Science-Transform-Informati...

It's one of the few books on the subject that doesn't get bogged down with mathematical notation, nor does it cheat with "And Then A Miracle Happens" library calls. The book is primarily aimed at business analysts, but programmers can get a lot out of it too.

"A data scientist is a statistician living in San Francisco" - @jeremyjarvis

Thanks for sharing. I like his insight of spreadsheets being the tool to share data with the masses.