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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
by Toby Segaran
2007 O’Reilly Media
Rating: 
Late last spring, maybe early summer, I picked up a copy of this book. I didn’t really have time to engage it until a little before the fall semester started as I included it in a class. The more I worked through the text, the more I realized that this book is a lot of fun. It’s not for the novice or those who want things more fully explained.
Still, if you want to learn a great deal about how to perform mining on data openly (mostly) accessible on the web with the understanding the technical details are often left to the reader which may mean much investigation outside the text, I highly recommend it. As I said, it’s fun.