Data mining
by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber · first published 2000
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"Here's the resource you need if you want to apply today's most powerful data mining techniques to meet real business challenges. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques equips you with a sound understanding of data mining principles and teaches you proven methods for knowledge discovery in large corporate databases.". "Written expressly for database practitioners and professionals, this book begins with a conceptual introduction designed to get you up to speed. This is followed by a comprehensive and state-of-the-art coverage of data mining concepts and techniques. Each chapter functions as a s
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If you want a fairly easy read without too many equations, try: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Second Edition) http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html Which goes nicely with the Weka open source ML toolkit http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/…
on “Can anyone recommend good books, articles or essays that introduce machine learning?” ↗…will learn what P vs NP means). On a more practical side, I think that a must read for machine learning is Tom Mitchell - Machine Learning . Another book that from what I've heard is easier to digest is Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques.
on “Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers” ↗…and a look into the day to day operations of Goldman Sachs) http://www.amazon.com/Why-Left-Goldman-Sachs-Street/dp/14555... The Hobbit http://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-There-Again-Illustrated-Author/... Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques(Great intro into data mining) http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Concepts-Techniques-Manage... Programming Collective Intelligence(You can play around with actual implementations…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012” ↗- Modern Information Retrieval by Baeza Yates - Data Mining Book by Jiawei Han et al - Managing Gigabytes by Witten et al - Hypertext Mining book by Chakrabarti
on “Ask HN: Best Text Mining Resources” ↗books about machine learning applications/tools: - "Programming Collective Intelligence" - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ - "Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Technique" - http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/book.html books about machine learning background/theory: - "machine learning" - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html -…
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