[moserware]

I recommend the video at http://blog.kaggle.com/2011/03/23/getting-in-shape-for-the-s...

I gave more recommendations at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/598726/overwhelmed-by-mac...

(Disclaimer: I work at Kaggle)

EDIT: Fixed second link

[stfu]

Sweet, thanks! I would very much appreciate if you guys could somehow motivate the great data mining talent on your site to produce tutorials. I would be even willing to pay there for some training course because traditional tutorial providers (Lynda etc) have apparently not yet discovered this as a potential subject.

[moserware]

It's something we're interested in doing. I think Jeremy's video (that I linked to first) is a good start.

In addition, by working in the field, I think I'm in a better position to write blog tutorials like my TrueSkill one: http://www.moserware.com/2010/03/computing-your-skill.html

It's our hope that we can encourage a lot of our community to post insights of their approaches. That's what we already do on our blog with our "How I Did It" posts like http://blog.kaggle.com/2011/10/19/deceitful-beast-william-cu...

[boneheadmed]

This is great. I'm a practicing medical doctor and a coder. My friend and I are going to give the healthcare one a go. If anything it's good fun and we'll learn more about the real world application of data mining to medicine. Thanks for the links.