A lecture course on the statistical foundations of data mining, taught by David Mease and hosted on Google Video and stats202.com. It covers statistical methods underlying modern data mining and prediction.

One commenter recommends it as a free lecture series alongside a free statistics book for someone wanting to learn statistics and data mining.

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1. Recommendseas2009in “Ask HN: I want to learn statistics and data mining”

   Here is another free book, which teaches statistics through R:

   Introduction to Statistical Thought http://www.math.umass.edu/~lavine/Book/book.html

   I can also recommend the Statistical Aspects of Data Mining lectures by David Mease (on Google Video & stats202.com).

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