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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Why Data Mining?

  • The Explosive Growth of Data: from terabytes to petabytes
    • Data collection and data availability
      • Automated data collection tools, database systems, Web, computerized society
    • Major sources of abundant data
      • Business: Web, e-commerce, transactions, stocks, …
      • Science: Remote sensing, bioinformatics, scientific simulation, …
      • Society and everyone: news, digital cameras, YouTube
  • We are drowning in data, but starving for knowledge!
  • “Necessity is the mother of invention”—Data mining—Automated analysis of massive data sets

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Evolution of Sciences

  • Before 1600, empirical science
  • 1600-1950s, theoretical science
    • Each discipline has grown a theoretical component. Theoretical models often motivate experiments and generalize our understanding.
  • 1950s-1990s, computational science
    • Over the last 50 years, most disciplines have grown a third, computational branch (e.g. empirical, theoretical, and computational ecology, or physics, or linguistics.)
    • Computational Science traditionally meant simulation. It grew out of our inability to find closed-form solutions for complex mathematical models.
  • 1990-now, data science
    • The flood of data from new scientific instruments and simulations
    • The ability to economically store and manage petabytes of data online
    • The Internet and computing Grid that makes all these archives universally accessible
    • Scientific info. management, acquisition, organization, query, and visualization tasks scale almost linearly with data volumes. Data mining is a major new challenge!
  • Jim Gray and Alex Szalay, The World Wide Telescope: An Archetype for Online Science, Comm. ACM, 45(11): 50-54, Nov. 2002

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Evolution of Database Technology

  • 1960s:
    • Data collection, database creation, IMS and network DBMS
  • 1970s:
    • Relational data model, relational DBMS implementation
  • 1980s:
    • RDBMS, advanced data models (extended-relational, OO, deductive, etc.)
    • Application-oriented DBMS (spatial, scientific, engineering, etc.)
  • 1990s:
    • Data mining, data warehousing, multimedia databases, and Web databases
  • 2000s
    • Stream data management and mining
    • Data mining and its applications
    • Web technology (XML, data integration) and global information systems

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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What Is Data Mining?

  • Data mining (knowledge discovery from data)
    • Extraction of interesting (non-trivial, implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful) patterns or knowledge from huge amount of data
    • Data mining: a misnomer?
  • Alternative names
    • Knowledge discovery (mining) in databases (KDD), knowledge extraction, data/pattern analysis, data archeology, data dredging, information harvesting, business intelligence, etc.
  • Watch out: Is everything “data mining”?
    • Simple search and query processing
    • (Deductive) expert systems

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Knowledge Discovery (KDD) Process

  • This is a view from typical database systems and data warehousing communities
  • Data mining plays an essential role in the knowledge discovery process

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Data Cleaning

Data Integration

Databases

Data Warehouse

Task-relevant Data

Selection

Data Mining

Pattern Evaluation

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Example: A Web Mining Framework

  • Web mining usually involves
    • Data cleaning
    • Data integration from multiple sources
    • Warehousing the data
    • Data cube construction
    • Data selection for data mining
    • Data mining
    • Presentation of the mining results
    • Patterns and knowledge to be used or stored into knowledge-base

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Data Mining in Business Intelligence

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Increasing potential

to support

business decisions

End User

Business

Analyst

Data

Analyst

DBA

Decision Making

Data Presentation

Visualization Techniques

Data Mining

Information Discovery

Data Exploration

Statistical Summary, Querying, and Reporting

Data Preprocessing/Integration, Data Warehouses

Data Sources

Paper, Files, Web documents, Scientific experiments, Database Systems

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Example: Mining vs. Data Exploration

  • Business intelligence view
    • Warehouse, data cube, reporting but not much mining
  • Business objects vs. data mining tools
  • Supply chain example: tools
  • Data presentation
  • Exploration

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KDD Process: A Typical View from ML and Statistics

  • This is a view from typical machine learning and statistics communities

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Input Data

Data Mining

Data Pre-Processing

Post-Processing

Data integration

Normalization

Feature selection

Dimension reduction

Pattern discovery

Association & correlation

Classification

Clustering

Outlier analysis

… … … …

Pattern evaluation

Pattern selection

Pattern interpretation

Pattern visualization

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Example: Medical Data Mining

  • Health care & medical data mining – often adopted such a view in statistics and machine learning
  • Preprocessing of the data (including feature extraction and dimension reduction)
  • Classification or/and clustering processes
  • Post-processing for presentation

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining

  • Data to be mined
    • Database data (extended-relational, object-oriented, heterogeneous, legacy), data warehouse, transactional data, stream, spatiotemporal, time-series, sequence, text and web, multi-media, graphs & social and information networks
  • Knowledge to be mined (or: Data mining functions)
    • Characterization, discrimination, association, classification, clustering, trend/deviation, outlier analysis, etc.
    • Descriptive vs. predictive data mining
    • Multiple/integrated functions and mining at multiple levels
  • Techniques utilized
    • Data-intensive, data warehouse (OLAP), machine learning, statistics, pattern recognition, visualization, high-performance, etc.
  • Applications adapted
    • Retail, telecommunication, banking, fraud analysis, bio-data mining, stock market analysis, text mining, Web mining, etc.

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Data Mining: On What Kinds of Data?

  • Database-oriented data sets and applications
    • Relational database, data warehouse, transactional database
  • Advanced data sets and advanced applications
    • Data streams and sensor data
    • Time-series data, temporal data, sequence data (incl. bio-sequences)
    • Structure data, graphs, social networks and multi-linked data
    • Object-relational databases
    • Heterogeneous databases and legacy databases
    • Spatial data and spatiotemporal data
    • Multimedia database
    • Text databases
    • The World-Wide Web

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Data Mining Function: (1) Generalization

  • Information integration and data warehouse construction
    • Data cleaning, transformation, integration, and multidimensional data model
  • Data cube technology
    • Scalable methods for computing (i.e., materializing) multidimensional aggregates
    • OLAP (online analytical processing)
  • Multidimensional concept description: Characterization and discrimination
    • Generalize, summarize, and contrast data characteristics, e.g., dry vs. wet region

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Data Mining Function: (2) Association and Correlation Analysis

  • Frequent patterns (or frequent itemsets)
    • What items are frequently purchased together in your Walmart?
  • Association, correlation vs. causality
    • A typical association rule
      • Diaper 🡪 Beer [0.5%, 75%] (support, confidence)
    • Are strongly associated items also strongly correlated?
  • How to mine such patterns and rules efficiently in large datasets?
  • How to use such patterns for classification, clustering, and other applications?

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Data Mining Function: (3) Classification

  • Classification and label prediction
    • Construct models (functions) based on some training examples
    • Describe and distinguish classes or concepts for future prediction
      • E.g., classify countries based on (climate), or classify cars based on (gas mileage)
    • Predict some unknown class labels
  • Typical methods
    • Decision trees, naïve Bayesian classification, support vector machines, neural networks, rule-based classification, pattern-based classification, logistic regression, …
  • Typical applications:
    • Credit card fraud detection, direct marketing, classifying stars, diseases, web-pages, …

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Data Mining Function: (4) Cluster Analysis

  • Unsupervised learning (i.e., Class label is unknown)
  • Group data to form new categories (i.e., clusters), e.g., cluster houses to find distribution patterns
  • Principle: Maximizing intra-class similarity & minimizing interclass similarity
  • Many methods and applications

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Data Mining Function: (5) Outlier Analysis

  • Outlier analysis
    • Outlier: A data object that does not comply with the general behavior of the data
    • Noise or exception? ― One person’s garbage could be another person’s treasure
    • Methods: by product of clustering or regression analysis, …
    • Useful in fraud detection, rare events analysis

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Time and Ordering: Sequential Pattern, Trend and Evolution Analysis

  • Sequence, trend and evolution analysis
    • Trend, time-series, and deviation analysis: e.g., regression and value prediction
    • Sequential pattern mining
      • e.g., first buy digital camera, then buy large SD memory cards
    • Periodicity analysis
    • Motifs and biological sequence analysis
      • Approximate and consecutive motifs
    • Similarity-based analysis
  • Mining data streams
    • Ordered, time-varying, potentially infinite, data streams

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Structure and Network Analysis

  • Graph mining
    • Finding frequent subgraphs (e.g., chemical compounds), trees (XML), substructures (web fragments)
  • Information network analysis
    • Social networks: actors (objects, nodes) and relationships (edges)
      • e.g., author networks in CS, terrorist networks
    • Multiple heterogeneous networks
      • A person could be multiple information networks: friends, family, classmates, …
    • Links carry a lot of semantic information: Link mining
  • Web mining
    • Web is a big information network: from PageRank to Google
    • Analysis of Web information networks
      • Web community discovery, opinion mining, usage mining, …

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Evaluation of Knowledge

  • Are all mined knowledge interesting?
    • One can mine tremendous amount of “patterns” and knowledge
    • Some may fit only certain dimension space (time, location, …)
    • Some may not be representative, may be transient, …
  • Evaluation of mined knowledge → directly mine only interesting knowledge?
    • Descriptive vs. predictive
    • Coverage
    • Typicality vs. novelty
    • Accuracy
    • Timeliness
    • …

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Data Mining: Confluence of Multiple Disciplines

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Learning

Statistics

Applications

Algorithm

Pattern

Recognition

High-Performance

Computing

Visualization

Database

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Why Confluence of Multiple Disciplines?

  • Tremendous amount of data
    • Algorithms must be highly scalable to handle such as tera-bytes of data
  • High-dimensionality of data
    • Micro-array may have tens of thousands of dimensions
  • High complexity of data
    • Data streams and sensor data
    • Time-series data, temporal data, sequence data
    • Structure data, graphs, social networks and multi-linked data
    • Heterogeneous databases and legacy databases
    • Spatial, spatiotemporal, multimedia, text and Web data
    • Software programs, scientific simulations
  • New and sophisticated applications

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Applications of Data Mining

  • Web page analysis: from web page classification, clustering to PageRank & HITS algorithms
  • Collaborative analysis & recommender systems
  • Basket data analysis to targeted marketing
  • Biological and medical data analysis: classification, cluster analysis (microarray data analysis), biological sequence analysis, biological network analysis
  • Data mining and software engineering (e.g., IEEE Computer, Aug. 2009 issue)
  • From major dedicated data mining systems/tools (e.g., SAS, MS SQL-Server Analysis Manager, Oracle Data Mining Tools) to invisible data mining

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Major Issues in Data Mining (1)

  • Mining Methodology
    • Mining various and new kinds of knowledge
    • Mining knowledge in multi-dimensional space
    • Data mining: An interdisciplinary effort
    • Boosting the power of discovery in a networked environment
    • Handling noise, uncertainty, and incompleteness of data
    • Pattern evaluation and pattern- or constraint-guided mining
  • User Interaction
    • Interactive mining
    • Incorporation of background knowledge
    • Presentation and visualization of data mining results

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Major Issues in Data Mining (2)

  • Efficiency and Scalability
    • Efficiency and scalability of data mining algorithms
    • Parallel, distributed, stream, and incremental mining methods
  • Diversity of data types
    • Handling complex types of data
    • Mining dynamic, networked, and global data repositories
  • Data mining and society
    • Social impacts of data mining
    • Privacy-preserving data mining
    • Invisible data mining

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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A Brief History of Data Mining Society

  • 1989 IJCAI Workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
    • Knowledge Discovery in Databases (G. Piatetsky-Shapiro and W. Frawley, 1991)
  • 1991-1994 Workshops on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
    • Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (U. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, and R. Uthurusamy, 1996)
  • 1995-1998 International Conferences on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD’95-98)
    • Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (1997)
  • ACM SIGKDD conferences since 1998 and SIGKDD Explorations
  • More conferences on data mining
    • PAKDD (1997), PKDD (1997), SIAM-Data Mining (2001), (IEEE) ICDM (2001), etc.
  • ACM Transactions on KDD starting in 2007

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Conferences and Journals on Data Mining

  • KDD Conferences
    • ACM SIGKDD Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD)
    • SIAM Data Mining Conf. (SDM)
    • (IEEE) Int. Conf. on Data Mining (ICDM)
    • European Conf. on Machine Learning and Principles and practices of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ECML-PKDD)
    • Pacific-Asia Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)
    • Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

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  • Other related conferences
    • DB conferences: ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, ICDT, …
    • Web and IR conferences: WWW, SIGIR, WSDM
    • ML conferences: ICML, NIPS
    • PR conferences: CVPR,
  • Journals
    • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI or DMKD)
    • IEEE Trans. On Knowledge and Data Eng. (TKDE)
    • KDD Explorations
    • ACM Trans. on KDD

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Where to Find References? DBLP, CiteSeer, Google

  • Data mining and KDD (SIGKDD: CDROM)
    • Conferences: ACM-SIGKDD, IEEE-ICDM, SIAM-DM, PKDD, PAKDD, etc.
    • Journal: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, KDD Explorations, ACM TKDD
  • Database systems (SIGMOD: ACM SIGMOD Anthology—CD ROM)
    • Conferences: ACM-SIGMOD, ACM-PODS, VLDB, IEEE-ICDE, EDBT, ICDT, DASFAA
    • Journals: IEEE-TKDE, ACM-TODS/TOIS, JIIS, J. ACM, VLDB J., Info. Sys., etc.
  • AI & Machine Learning
    • Conferences: Machine learning (ML), AAAI, IJCAI, COLT (Learning Theory), CVPR, NIPS, etc.
    • Journals: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge and Information Systems, IEEE-PAMI, etc.
  • Web and IR
    • Conferences: SIGIR, WWW, CIKM, etc.
    • Journals: WWW: Internet and Web Information Systems,
  • Statistics
    • Conferences: Joint Stat. Meeting, etc.
    • Journals: Annals of statistics, etc.
  • Visualization
    • Conference proceedings: CHI, ACM-SIGGraph, etc.
    • Journals: IEEE Trans. visualization and computer graphics, etc.

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Chapter 1. Introduction

  • Why Data Mining?
  • What Is Data Mining?
  • A Multi-Dimensional View of Data Mining
  • What Kind of Data Can Be Mined?
  • What Kinds of Patterns Can Be Mined?
  • What Technology Are Used?
  • What Kind of Applications Are Targeted?
  • Major Issues in Data Mining
  • A Brief History of Data Mining and Data Mining Society
  • Summary

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Summary

  • Data mining: Discovering interesting patterns and knowledge from massive amount of data
  • A natural evolution of database technology, in great demand, with wide applications
  • A KDD process includes data cleaning, data integration, data selection, transformation, data mining, pattern evaluation, and knowledge presentation
  • Mining can be performed in a variety of data
  • Data mining functionalities: characterization, discrimination, association, classification, clustering, outlier and trend analysis, etc.
  • Data mining technologies and applications
  • Major issues in data mining

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Recommended Reference Books

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  • R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart, and D. G. Stork, Pattern Classification, 2ed., Wiley-Interscience, 2000
  • T. Dasu and T. Johnson. Exploratory Data Mining and Data Cleaning. John Wiley & Sons, 2003
  • U. M. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, and R. Uthurusamy. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. AAAI/MIT Press, 1996
  • U. Fayyad, G. Grinstein, and A. Wierse, Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Morgan Kaufmann, 2001
  • J. Han and M. Kamber. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd ed., 2011
  • D. J. Hand, H. Mannila, and P. Smyth, Principles of Data Mining, MIT Press, 2001
  • T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, 2nd ed., Springer-Verlag, 2009
  • B. Liu, Web Data Mining, Springer 2006.
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  • G. Piatetsky-Shapiro and W. J. Frawley. Knowledge Discovery in Databases. AAAI/MIT Press, 1991
  • P.-N. Tan, M. Steinbach and V. Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Wiley, 2005
  • S. M. Weiss and N. Indurkhya, Predictive Data Mining, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998
  • I. H. Witten and E. Frank, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed. 2005

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