On: Scikit-learn user guide (2017) [pdf]

[solomatov]

If you want to learn machine learning, there're much better material to start with. For example, this: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

[newfocogi → solomatov]

I agree that this text is great for machine learning theory, but often times non-students learn better through learning tools while solving real problems, rather than focusing on theory. Scikit-learn is an amazing tool for facilitating problem based machine learning. I don’t feel the same way about R unless the student has a statistics degree already...

[platz → newfocogi]

The course actually teaches statistics. R is only used to illustrate the concepts.