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H. ZhouLearn Data Mining Through Excelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9771-1_1

1. Excel and Data Mining

Hong Zhou1  
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 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 some outstanding data mining software tools such as RapidMiner 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? ...

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