Top Machine Learning Algorithms Explained

Excellent explanations of the top machine learning algorithms.
http://rayli.net/blog/data/top-10-data-mining-algorithms-in-plain-english

And if you're interested in a decent learning path for data science, here's a decent one
http://www.analyticsvidhya.com/learning-paths-data-science-business-analytics-business-intelligence-big-data/learning-path-data-science-python/