Google has posted a free website featuring Machine Learning Guides, simple step-by-step walkthroughs to solve common machine learning problems using best practices.

There are currently two guides:

• Rules of ML
• Text classification

In the Rules of ML, Martin Zinkevich discusses the Best Practices for ML Engineering:

This document is intended to help those with a basic knowledge of machine learning get the benefit of Google’s best practices in machine learning. It presents a style for machine learning, similar to the Google C++ Style Guide and other popular guides to practical programming. If you have taken a class in machine learning, or built or worked on a machine­-learned model, then you have the necessary background to read this document.

The text classifier article is similarly interesting and detailed.

Check out this Google resource for yourself.

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