On: Top data mining algorithms in plain English

[stellographer]

I found this article useful.

What I was really hoping for was a layman's translation of the maths on wikipedia [ie. how to implement]. But this is a good jumping off point for figuring out which black box to use.

[profinger → stellographer]

This is what I was thinking as well! The explanation is good but it's the actual steps of the algorithm that are the difficult part!

[blumkvist → stellographer]

So you want to do math without knowing how to do math?

[stellographer → blumkvist]

I'm just saying it takes about 30 seconds to explain the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm in plain english, and the wikipedia article is almost intentionally esoteric on the matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis–Hastings_algorithm

Meanwhile the much more complex Firefly algorithm is adequately explained in just 3 sentences that are obvious to understand:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_algorithm