+1 for Rob Hyndman, "Forecasting: principles and practice" are great and free: https://www.otexts.org/fpp

I personally like Andrews Ng «Machine Learning» course at coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
(It's also available as video playlist on YouTube.)

Andrew uses Octave for assignments instead R, but in video discuss in detail bolts and nuts of machine learning and give some useful practical advices, how to apply this technology.

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