Thanks for the information! I've updated the article to reflect this.
Here's a question: where does "the field" hang out? Is there a cohesive community of any sort?
Here's a question: where does "the field" hang out? Is there a cohesive community of any sort?
Also, you might check out Random Forest algorithms--they're high performance but still very beginner friendly, as there aren't many parameters to tune. There's a nice implementation in the excellent scikits-learn python library.