Best Applied ML Course / Tutorial?

I'd like to learn more modern machine learning techniques in the context of an actual data set and code base. For example, there are theoretical books on convolutional neural networks, but I don't want to hunt down small/medium training data sets that I can try in under a week. I'm mostly language agnostic, but it would be nice if the language was Java-like, Python-like, or R-like.

Basically I'm looking for is a collection of "Hello World" programs demonstrating modern neural nets, SVMs, and other classification algos.