[craigching]

This one?

http://christonard.com/12-free-data-mining-books/

[gtani]

or this which includes good backgrounders on lin.alg, probability and stat,

http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach...

Or http://www.electronicsforu.com/newelectronics/articles/hitsc...

this is an excellent review (but doesn't cover books by Mohri, Rostamizadeh, Talwalkar and Abu-Mostafa , Magdon-Ismail, Lin: http://www.amazon.com/review/R32N9EIEOMIPQU/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...

[simplekoala]

yes, yes. Thanks!