Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, 3rd Edition

Third Edition of the Book

We would like to express our grateful thanks to all of the previous and current members of the Data Mining Group at UIUC, the faculty and students in the Data and Information Systems (DAIS) Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and many friends and colleagues, whose constant support and encouragement have made our work on this edition a rewarding experience. We would also like to thank students in CS412 and CS512 classes at UIUC of the 2010–2011 academic year, who carefully went through the early drafts of this book, identified many errors, and suggested various improvements.

We also wish to thank David Bevans and Rick Adams at Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ...