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