Machine Learning DataSets
UCI Machine Learning Repository (datasets)
Delve Respository (datasets)
Machine Learning Packages
Weka3 - Data Mining Software in Java
mallet: Java code for text machine learning and data mining
SVM light
LDA library in C from Blei
HMM Toolbox for Matlab
(has links to other HMM packages)
Other Resources, tutorials, and papers
COLT Homepage
Yi Zhang's info for IRKM students
Andrew Moore's Statistical Data Mining Tutorials
Javier Movellan Kolmogorov Project Tutorials
Machine Learning/Learning Theory hotlist
Todd Will's SVD tutorial
Bilmes, J. A Gentle Tutorial on the EM Algorithm and its Application to Parameter Estimation for Gaussian Mixture and Hidden Markov Models. Technical Report, University of Berkeley, ICSI-TR-97-021, 1997.
also at http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bilmes98gentle.html
Various Machine Learning Contestss
Netflix movie recommendation prize
TREC: Text Retrieval Conference
(has several competitions)
UCSD Student Data Mining Competition
Brain-Computer interface prediction competition
If anyone discovers other useful links, please let me (David Helmbold) know and I will add them to the list.