Suggested online courses
Practical Machine Learning, J. Leek, R. Peng, B. Caffo, Johns Hopkins University (https://www.coursera.org/jhu)
Probabilistic Graphical Models, D. Koller, Stanford University (https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm)
Machine Learning, A. Ng, Stanford University (https://www.coursera.org/course/ml)