Learn Data Mining Through Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach for Understanding Machine Learning Methods

© Hong Zhou 2020

H. ZhouLearn Data Mining Through Excelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5982-5_1

1. Excel and Data Mining

Hong Zhou¹ 

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University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA

 

Let’s get right to the topic. Why do we need to learn Excel in our data mining endeavor? It is true that there are quite a few outstanding data mining software tools such as RapidMiner and Tableau that make the mining process easy and straightforward. In addition, programming languages Python and R have a large number of reliable packages dedicated to various data mining tasks. What is the purpose of studying data mining or machine learning through Excel?

Why Excel?

If you are already an experienced data mining professional, I would say that you are asking the right ...