Beatiful Books in IR, Data Mining and Machine Learning

Information Retrieval & Web IR

• Introduction to Information Retrieval by Christopher D. Manning
• Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Alistair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell
• Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data by Soumen Chakrabarti
  
• Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings by Amy N. Langville
• Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics by David A. Grossman

Data Mining

• Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition by Ian H. Witten
• Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition by Micheline Kamber Jiawei Han
• Principles of Data Mining by David J. Hand, Heikki Mannila, and Padhraic Smyth

Machine Learning

• Machine Learning by Thomas Mitchel
  
• Introduction to Machine Learning by Ethem Alpaydin

Programming

• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran