[bcoates]

I don't know anything about this space, but I have some real-world datasets and love throwing algorithms I don't understand at them. Right now I'm writing classifiers by hand, it'd be awesome to outsource my job to some AI. Does anyone have a good starting point where I can figure out which modern classification algorithms are relevant or even possible given my dataset and computer power available?

[rm999]

This is a pretty decent flowchart to finding appropriate machine learning algorithms for your problem: http://i.imgur.com/iVo4AAw.png

[robrenaud]

I love chatting about ML. I am generally skeptical of blackbox machine learning, but I am happy to talk about what approaches might be viable for your specific datasets. gtalk or email works for me. [e-mail]