Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition, Edition 2

Ian H. Witten · Eibe Frank

Jul 2005 · Elsevier

About this ebook

Data Mining, Second Edition, describes data mining techniques and shows how they work. The book is a major revision of the first edition that appeared in 1999. While the basic core remains the same, it has been updated to reflect the changes that have taken place over five years, and now has nearly double the references.

The highlights of this new edition include thirty new technique sections; an enhanced Weka machine learning workbench, which now features an interactive interface; comprehensive information on neural networks; a new section on Bayesian networks; and much more.

This text is designed for information systems practitioners, programmers, consultants, developers, information technology managers, specification writers as well as professors and students of graduate-level data mining and machine learning courses.

• Algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining—including tried and true techniques as well as leading edge methods
• Performance improvement techniques that work by transforming the input or output

Ratings and reviews

desconocido, desde grandes cantidades de datos almacenados en distintos formatos” [Witten & Frank, 2005, Página xxiii]

Easy book. Gives a good start. But not much emphasis on minute things.

meterial about algorithms for data mining is appriciated...

About the author

Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography.