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* Not committed for long time (2~3 years).
For a list of free machine learning books available for download, go [here](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning/blob/master/books.md).
+For a list of free-to-attend meetups and local events, go [here](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning/blob/master/meetups.md).
## Table of Contents
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* [Probability & Statistics Cookbook](http://matthias.vallentin.net/probability-and-statistics-cookbook/)
* [Advanced Data Analysis From An Elementary Point of View](http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/ADAfaEPoV.pdf)
* [Introduction to Probability](http://athenasc.com/probbook.html) - Book and course by MIT
-* [The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.](http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/) -Book
+* [The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction.](http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/) -Book
* [An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R](http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/) - Book
* [Learning Statistics Using R](http://health.adelaide.edu.au/psychology/ccs/teaching/lsr/)
* [Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IPSUR/vignettes/IPSUR.pdf) - Book
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+The following is a list of free-to-attend meetups and local events on Machine Learning
+
+- [India](#india)
+ - [Bangalore](#bangalore)
+
+
+## India
+
+
+### Bangalore
+* [Bangalore Machine Learning Meetup (BangML)](https://www.meetup.com/BangML/)