TEXTBOOK

The recommended textbook covers 14 out of the 18 lectures. The rest is covered by free notes on the forum.

Here is the book's table of contents, and here is the notation used in the course and the book.

Amazon review: In a 1657 letter, Blaise Pascal, apologizing for its length, wrote, "I made it longer because I did not have time to make it shorter." ... Pascal's quote speaks to the great difficulty inherent in covering a topic concisely. "Learning from Data: A Short Course" is a remarkable achievement not only for how completely it succeeds at covering its topic clearly and concisely but also for how much of a pleasure the end product is to read. Professors Abu-Mostafa, Magdon-Ismail, and Lin have produced a beautifully written, user-friendly book that, in my opinion, deserves to be a standard introduction to the field.