Preface

How to Use This Book

Data mining is much more than just trying stuff and hoping something good happens! Rather, data mining is the detection, characterization, and exploitation of actionable patterns in data.

This book is a wide-ranging treatment of the practical aspects of data mining in the real-world. It presents in a systematic way the analytic principles acquired by the author during his 30+ years as a practicing engineer, data miner, information scientist, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science.

This book is not intended to be read ...

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