More resources
The following would serve as a really good resource for additional information:
Kaggle competitions
URL: www.kaggle.com/
Kaggle runs data mining competitions regularly, often with monetary prizes. Testing your skills on Kaggle competitions is a fast and great way to learn to work with real-world data mining problems. The forums are nice and share environments—often, you will see code released for a top-10 entry during the competition!
Coursera
URL: www.coursera.org
Coursera contains many courses on data mining and data science. Many of the courses are specialized, such as big data and image processing. A great general one to start with is Andrew Ng's famous course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/. It is a bit more advanced than this and would be a great next step for interested readers. For neural networks, check out this course: https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets. If you complete all of these, try out the course on probabilistic graphical models at https...