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The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book Paperback – 13 Jan. 2019
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Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google, co-author of AIMA, the most popular AI textbook in the world: "Burkov has undertaken a very useful but impossibly hard task in reducing all of machine learning to 100 pages. He succeeds well in choosing the topics — both theory and practice — that will be useful to practitioners, and for the reader who understands that this is the first 100 (or actually 150) pages you will read, not the last, provides a solid introduction to the field."
Aurélien Géron, Senior AI Engineer, author of the bestseller Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: "The breadth of topics the book covers is amazing for just 100 pages (plus few bonus pages!). Burkov doesn't hesitate to go into the math equations: that's one thing that short books usually drop. I really liked how the author explains the core concepts in just a few words. The book can be very useful for newcomers in the field, as well as for old-timers who can gain from such a broad view of the field."
Karolis Urbonas, Head of Data Science at Amazon: "A great introduction to machine learning from a world-class practitioner."
Chao Han, VP, Head of R&D at Lucidworks: "I wish such a book existed when I was a statistics graduate student trying to learn about machine learning."
Sujeet Varakhedi, Head of Engineering at eBay: "Andriy's book does a fantastic job of cutting the noise and hitting the tracks and full speed from the first page.''
Deepak Agarwal, VP of Artificial Intelligence at LinkedIn: "A wonderful book for engineers who want to incorporate ML in their day-to-day work without necessarily spending an enormous amount of time.''
Vincent Pollet, Head of Research at Nuance: "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book is an excellent read to get started with Machine Learning.''
Gareth James, Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, co-author of the bestseller An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R: "This is a compact “how to do data science” manual and I predict it will become a go-to resource for academics and practitioners alike. At 100 pages (or a little more), the book is short enough to read in a single sitting. Yet, despite its length, it covers all the major machine learning approaches, ranging from classical linear and logistic regression, through to modern support vector machines, deep learning, boosting, and random forests. There is also no shortage of details on the various approaches and the interested reader can gain further information on any particular method via the innovative companion book wiki. The book does not assume any high level mathematical or statistical training or even programming experience, so should be accessible to almost anyone willing to invest the time to learn about these methods. It should certainly be required reading for anyone starting a PhD program in this area and will serve as a useful reference as they progress further. Finally, the book illustrates some of the algorithms using Python code, one of the most popular coding languages for machine learning. I would highly recommend “The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book” for both the beginner looking to learn more about machine learning and the experienced practitioner seeking to extend their knowledge base."
Everything you really need to know in Machine Learning in a hundred pages.
- ISBN-10199957950X
- ISBN-13978-1999579500
- Publication date13 Jan. 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions19.05 x 0.97 x 23.5 cm
- Print length160 pages
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Peter Norvig, Research Director at Google, co-author of AIMA, the most popular AI textbook in the world: "Burkov has undertaken a very useful but impossibly hard task in reducing all of machine learning to 100 pages. He succeeds well in choosing the topics-both theory and practice-hat will be useful to practitioners, and for the reader who understands that this is the first 100 (or actually 150) pages you will read, not the last, provides a solid introduction to the field."
Aurélien Géron, Senior AI Engineer, author of the bestseller Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: "The breadth of topics the book covers is amazing for just 100 pages (plus few bonus pages!). Burkov doesn't hesitate to go into the math equations: that's one thing that short books usually drop. I really liked how the author explains the core concepts in just a few words. The book can be very useful for newcomers in the field, as well as for old-timers who can gain from such a broad view of the field."
Deepak Agarwal, VP of Artificial Intelligence at LinkedIn: "This book provides a great practical guide to get started and execute on ML within a few days without necessarily knowing much about ML apriori. The first five chapters are enough to get you started and the next few chapters provide you a good feel of more advanced topics to pursue. A wonderful book for engineers who want to incorporate ML in their day-to-day work without necessarily spending an enormous amount of time going through a formal degree program."
Karolis Urbonas, Head of Data Science at Amazon: "This book is a great introduction to machine learning from a world-class practitioner and LinkedIn superstar Andriy Burkov. He managed to find a good balance between the math of the algorithms, intuitive visualizations, and easy-to-read explanations. This book will benefit the newcomers to the field as a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of machine learning, while the experienced professionals will definitely enjoy the practical recommendations from Andriy's rich experience in the field."
Chao Han, VP, Head of R&D at Lucidworks: "I wish such a book existed when I was a statistics graduate student trying to learn about machine learning. There is the right amount of math which demystify the centerpiece of an algorithm with succinct but very clear descriptions. I'm also impressed by the widespread coverage and good choices of important methods as an introductory book (not all machine learning books mention things like learning to rank or metric learning). Highly recommended to STEM major students."
Sujeet Varakhedi, Head of Engineering at eBay: "Whether you want to become a machine learning practitioner or looking for an everyday resource, Andriy's book does a fantastic job of cutting the noise and hitting the tracks and full speed from the first page. It manages to structure all the important concepts from foundations to applications into a relatively quick read and leave the reader engaged at all times."
Vincent Pollet, Head of Research at Nuance: "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book is an excellent read to get started with Machine Learning. In his book, Andriy Burkov distills the ubiquitous material on Machine Learning into concise and well-balanced intuitive, theoretical and practical elements that bring beginners, managers, and practitioners many life hacks."
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- Publisher : Andriy Burkov
- Publication date : 13 Jan. 2019
- Language : English
- Print length : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 199957950X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1999579500
- Item weight : 380 g
- Dimensions : 19.05 x 0.97 x 23.5 cm
- Part of series : The Hundred-Page Books
- Best Sellers Rank: 25,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Andriy Burkov holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and is a recognized expert in machine learning and natural language processing. As a machine learning expert and leader, Andriy has successfully led dozens of production-grade AI projects in different business domains at Fujitsu and Gartner. His previous books have been translated into a dozen languages and are used as textbooks in many universities worldwide. His work has impacted millions of machine learning practitioners and researchers worldwide.
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Customers praise the book's ability to explain complex topics in simple words, making it a brilliant guide to machine learning. They find it remarkably easy to read. While some customers consider it worth the money, others express disappointment with the price.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2023The advantage of short books like this is that if they are well written the author has to think carefully about what to write and how to write it. That's certainly been done here.
After a crash course in what ML is and some mathematical notation, a few popular ML algorithms are introduced, before Burkov takes a look at what a learning algorithm fundamentally does: optimising a particular function (normally by minimising a loss function).
Other parts of the book go into ML practice, deep learning, practical problems and solutions, and tips and tricks for situations you might run into (e.g. handling multiple outputs). Unsupervised learning, word embeddings and ranking and recommendation systems are discussed. The book's conclusion talks about other areas to learn about which weren't present.
The book is dense in parts, no doubt about it. Burkov lays down all the mathematical formulae but also explains things pretty well and touches on the intuition behind key ideas, along with useful pictures and diagrams.
That is one of the things I liked the most: it is rigorous, concise, but not unclear. Another thing I really liked is that it touches on very practical problem discussed less frequently elsewhere (e.g. imbalanced datasets) and interesting approaches you won't find in more traditional resources (like one and zero shot learning).
In contrast to what some other reviewers on the back of book say, I'd say that this book is probably not the best one for absolute beginners. It would be much more useful when you know what ML is and have done a project or two, at least.
To sum up, if you want an information packed ML book that has both theory and useful practical tips, read this.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2025This book is one of the best books I have read on machine learning. It’s beautifully written with concise and clear explanations. The author does an amazing job in only communicating the necessary on such a broad and deep project. I got the hard copy and it’s a pleasure to have. Thank you
This book is one of the best books I have read on machine learning. It’s beautifully written with concise and clear explanations. The author does an amazing job in only communicating the necessary on such a broad and deep project. I got the hard copy and it’s a pleasure to have. Thank you
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2019This books price is a shame. Aside from that the content is good for the most part. Sadly it doesnt explain back propagation which would have been nice and theres no gaussian section which seemed odd. The best part about this book for me is its one of the few that actually explains the notation properly. I find that this subject appears a lot more difficult because of the dense notation which many books go out of their way not to define. This one does a good job of making sure you understand what all the letters and subscripts mean, and for that I was very happy
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2025This is not the book you get for sample code and immediate applications, but it is a fantastic resource to learn more of the theory behind machine learning methods. You will improve your use of models by learning the background in this book.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2025The book is extremely comprehensive with the knowledge, but it's more than enough to know the basics, better take this one, than much longer but empty in context books.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2024This is an excellent brief but in-depth introduction to the subject for complete beginners who have a mathematical background. In the first 6 pages it explains from very basic principles to producing a complete machine learning model using one technique. It then explains other techniques, including multi-level neural networks. It is a remarkably easy read considering the level of detail it goes into. I found it an excellent first book on the subject.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 August 2019For the most part, I liked the short and concise explanations. They were so concise I found my self reading and rereading sentences simply because there was so much information condensed into them. I disliked the treatment of backpropagation, which was almost non-existent and the explanation of convolutional neural networks was difficult to follow -despite the fact that I know how these networks work. Overall I feel that this is a good book to read if you have already had a healthy introduction to machine learning from other sources but there is no getting away from the fact that it is a little too short. The price also is a little high for such a slim book.
There are some dreadful books about machine learning doing the rounds at the moment. This book is not one of them.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2020Difficult to believe but this book describes a variety of machine learning concepts and algorithms in just 136 pages. Of course it lacks of applied machine learning paradigms but there are plenty of books out there to improve your practical skills - e.g. Hands On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & Tensorflow. If you are a beginner on the field this book looks challenging but after you grasp the key concepts you will know how thinks work! On the other hand experienced data scientist and machine learning engineers can refresh their knowledge or even self-improve. Lastly, I really enjoyed QR codes which provide additional material which is constantly up to date.
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Björn MilckeReviewed in Germany on 1 June 20245.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, for work, science and curiosity
I am a materials engineer and this book helped me a lot to quickly understand the concepts of machine learning with a very basic knowledge. I am very grateful to have come across this book. While I was working on my Master's thesis on a topic related to computer vision, the book was very accessible thanks to its clear explanations and helped me to quickly get into my topic. It also proved to be directly applicable to my professional work. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about machine learning and also to professionals in the field who want a reference book.
Thank you Andriy for this great book!
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Fabiana GonçalvesReviewed in Brazil on 17 September 20225.0 out of 5 stars Cumpre totalmente o que promete
O conteúdo realmente superou minhas expectativas. Em pouco mais de 100 páginas, o livro consegue trazer os principais conteúdos que qualquer pessoa que trabalha ou deseja trabalhar com Machine Learning deve saber. Apesar da complexidade dos temas, o autor é bastante didático e objetivo. O leitor que não tem conhecimento em disciplinas do ciclo básico da maioria dos cursos de exatas, como Cálculo, Álgebra Linear, Geometria Analítica ou Estatística, pode sentir um pouco de dificuldade para compreender alguns temas, mas isso não deve ser impeditivo para adquirir o livro. Na medida do possível, o autor tenta explicar um pouco desses pré-requisitos em cada assunto. Mas mais importante do que isso, certamente o leitor pode se motivar em aprender sobre essas disciplinas.
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Isaac G. CarbajalReviewed in Mexico on 10 March 20215.0 out of 5 stars Una muy buena introducción al tema
Es uno de los mejores libros que he visto a nivel principiante. Es importante que el objetivo del libro no es que tengas horas experiencia práctica al terminar de leerlo, sino dar un "panorama general" del Machine Learning, cosa que el autor hace de forma magistral.
Nathan WilliamsReviewed in Australia on 10 December 20195.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book
So succinct and doesn't skip the math on anything. An intro to ML but has something for everyone to learn. Great to keep on the shelf at home or work for reference
KaitoReviewed in Singapore on 30 December 20215.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful short book that provides a backbone structure for your machine learning journey
I'd say no one book or course is adequate for mastering Machine Learning, but this book is really helpful! It may not cover all aspects in great detail, but it does touch all the important points and with admirable clarity. The book is like a structured learning guide, based on which we can get a baseline understanding, and then go elsewhere to pick up more details as needed.
I use it in conjunction with half a dozen other machine learning books and online courses. I love this book!








