Data Mining For Dummies

About the Author

Meta S. Brown helps technical professionals communicate with everybody else. She’s the creator of the Storytelling for Data Analysts and Storytelling for Tech workshops.

Dedication

For Marty, who never gives me a hard time about work. Ever.

Author’s Acknowledgments

A number of experts shared their experience and time to contribute to this book. Each of them is named somewhere in the pages that follow.

The researchers who share data make books like this possible. Sources are cited within the book.

Wiley editors Christopher Morris, Leah Michael, John Edwards, and Kyle Looper are models of professionalism. I wonder if they know how exceptional that is.

Tom Khabaza, technical editor and the world’s best data-mining mentor, is a fountain of knowledge and a real mensch.

Laaren Brown and Lenny Hort — authors, editors, and much more — provided excellent advice galore.

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

Acquisitions Editor: Kyle Looper

Senior Project Editor: Christopher Morris

Copy Editor: John Edwards

Technical Editor: Thomas Khabaza

Editorial Assistant: Claire Johnson

Sr. Editorial Assistant: Cherie Case

Project Coordinator: Patrick Redmond

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