Principles of Data Mining (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 578
ISBN-13: 9780262082907
Subjects: Algorithms & procedures; Databases & data structures; Mathematical theory of computation; Algorithms (Computer Programming); Database Engineering; Computers; Computers - Data Base Management; Computer Books: General; Artificial Intelligence - General; Database Management - Database Mining; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Database Management - General; Programming - General; Data mining
Description: "The growing interest in data mining is motivated by a common problem across disciplines: how does one store, access, model, and ultimately describe and understand very large data sets? Historically, different aspects of data mining have been addressed independently by different disciplines. This is the first truly interdisciplinary text on data mining, blending the contributions of information science, computer science, and statistics.".

"The book consists of three sections. The first, foundations, provides a tutorial overview of the principles underlying data mining algorithms and their application. The presentation emphasizes intuition rather than rigor. The second section, data mining algorithms, shows how algorithms are constructed to solve specific problems in a principled manner.

The algorithms covered include trees and rules for classification and regression, association rules, belief networks, classical statistical models, nonlinear models such as neural networks, and local "memory-based" models. The third section shows how all of the preceding analysis fits together when applied to real-world data mining problems. Topics include the role of metadata, how to handle missing data, and data preprocessing."--BOOK JACKET.