Description Introduction to Data Mining presents fundamental conceptsand algorithms for those learning data mining for the first time,requiring only a modest background in mathematics. Each concept isexplored thoroughly and supported with numerous examples to provideboth theoretical and practical coverage of all data mining topics.All the major topics are organized into two chapters, beginningwith basic concepts that provide necessary background forunderstanding each data mining technique, followed by more advancedconcepts and algorithms. For Sale in Indiansubcontinent only Includes an extensive number of integrated examples and figures Offers instructor resources, including solutions for exercises and a complete set of lecture slides Topics covered include predictive modeling, association analysis, clustering, anomaly detection, and visualization Preface Introduction Data Exploring Data Classification: Basic Concepts, Decision Trees, and Model Evaluation Classification: Alternative Techniques Association Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms Association Analysis: Advanced Concepts Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms Cluster Analysis: Additional Issues and Algorithms Anomaly Detection Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Index Solved Question Papers
As an introductory book, this book does a really good job. Explain well and easy to understand. I did not finish all the contents, probably 80 percent. May refer to it if later I encounter some algorithms I've seen in the book as a quick introduction. I also learned that in order to truly understand those algorithms, I should do some real-life project, apply those algorithms to some real data. Hmm, that's what I am trying to do.
It's an introduction book, so you couldn't expect it to have fancy or state of the art algorithms in it. However, the content and examples were well written and explained. Traditional algorithms were also explained thoughtfully and comes with pseudo code. Some figures are really nice too, and I learnt that there was a type of figure named "Chernoff face", you should check it out:D. I was skimming this book, it's a good reference, and also a suitable book for data-mining newcomers.
Ok , it was good , ,it was a very interesting subject to me in database field . basics about data mining and how it differ from the relational database operations , warehouses , OLAP , data cube and how you visualize data in 3D, 4D ..how you classify data from human genes to chemical components , how you cluster based on shared properties or other ways .
if you into database design and modeling concepts then mapping to data mining techniques . So you need this book
+ the application you will work with when you will study this subject , is "Odiminer" it's a small file , will work will in your spreadsheets data to classify it , cluster it , find the noise and outliers among them.
This book is just fine as a quick guide to data mining. In my experience with it, reading entire chapters wasn't valuable. It's more of a good reference to figure out a concept in my more detail if your internet searching came up confusing.
The book was light on the math which was nice since it just got into the meat of the subject. Also, there's a nice appendix which does get in deeper into the mathematical foundation in case you need it.