Text Mining: Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information5 reviews Sholom Weiss, Nitin Indurkhya, ... Springer, 2004 An excellent introduction + Great introduction book of text mining + an idiot savant, statistical viewpoint + Very Good Intro Book             Microsoft Olap Solutions22 reviews Erik Thomsen, George Spofford, ... John Wiley & Sons, 1999 Solid Intro and Reference + Great book from the gurus + Enlightening + Great in-depth Text!!             Data Mining Methods and Models1 review Daniel T. Larose Wiley-IEEE Press, 2006 Strong on Statistics, Weaker on Data Mining This book is part of a Data Mining three book series. The first book is the strongest of the three, and should be considered first. My advice on this book is that if you 1) have a dozen or more related books, and 2) you have already worked on at least one or two data mining projects, you should ...             Data Preparation for Data Mining (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)11 reviews Dorian Pyle Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 The best book on this subject + Still very much worth reading in 2007 + Excellent book + Must read book for data mining + Excellent book; a must for those who do data mining.             Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection, First Edition8 reviews Jesus Mena Butterworth-Heinemann, 2003 Alternative Methodologies + Data Mining, plain and easy + When on-message, an excellent intro to data mining Are you interested in IDS's? If yes, perhaps you may already know that there are two main kinds of IDS's: based on "known bad behavior or abuse" or based on "behavior deviation". The first kind is very well known after several popular implementations like SNORT.On the plus side they are not ...             The Elements of Statistical Learning27 reviews T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, ... Springer, 2003 data mining from the viewpoint of statisticians + Good Book! + Excellent technical and conceptual overview + elements of statistical learning + Great statistics book.             Building Data Mining Applications for CRM18 reviews Alex Berson, Stephen Smith, ... McGraw-Hill Companies, 1999 Very useful and informative. + Great for producers + Very good bool on the matter + Timely book for current marketing concerns + REally useful book             Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data ...26 reviews Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank Morgan Kaufmann, 2005 Thorough, well-written, and crystal-clear explanations. Highly recommend this book for a practical introduction to the theory and applications of Machine Learning. Great book if you are looking to ACTUALLY implement some machine learning systems, prefer to learn via diagrams, a "how-stuff-works"-style explanation, and skip much of the equations and ...             Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining1 review Usama M. Fayyad, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, ... The MIT Press, 1996 An excellent book. I read a lot of papers from this book. And I read twice and twice a lot of them. This is a book to the professional and to the novice in data mining (d.m.). In it you take a general view from data mining and the particular one you pretend because you can see papers from "what is d.m.", "how to use ...             Data Warehousing and Data Mining for Telecommunications (Artech House Computer Science Library) Rob Mattison Artech House Publishers, 1997 especially good for telco guys to build their own telcos have unique features. so this kind of industry specific considerations are very useful and in need!             Data Mining With Neural Networks: Solving Business Problems from Application Development to Decision Support4 reviews Joseph P. Bigus Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 1996 look at the cover before you buy it + Very explanatory book about neural nets. The cover of this book clearly states that it is intended for "Solving Business Problems - from Application Development to Decision Support". The back of the book states that it is a "practical, accessible guide for business executives..." This is not a book for developers unless they are just ...             Text Mining Application Programming (Programming Series)5 reviews Manu Konchady Charles River Media, 2006 How to Find Information + Excellent! + Good book to bootstrap yourself into Text Mining + A Great Subject + An excellent guide to mining the Net             Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management28 reviews Michael J. A. Berry, Gordon S. Linoff *Wiley Computer Publishing, 2004 Excellent introduction + Excellent book for Data Mining + Very Interesting book + A must-have book for your technical library             Discovering Knowledge in Data: An Introduction to Data Mining2 reviews Daniel T. Larose Wiley-Interscience, 2004 conveys basic ideas + One of the best explanations of Decision Trees to be found The book gives a good introduction to data mining. Larose manages to cover the important techniques used to analyse data and turn it into knowledge. These include neural networks, various types of clustering. Most importantly, perhaps, he discusses how to try various models and how to evaluate the ...             Google Analytics18 reviews Mary E. Tyler, Jerri Ledford Wiley, 2006 Must have information for web involved people + Excellent guide + Definitely consider it if you're using Google Analytics... This book is fairly complex but it fills a need for those trying to understand Google Analytics. Well organized             Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis1 review Colleen McCue Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007 Analytics guided CSI Dr McCue's book shows how math can be applied in the public sector today to solve problems impacting all of us - namely finding the "bad guy". The author shows how patterns in data hold the key to intelligence - just as Tom Davenport does when he talks about analytics in the business world. ...             Data Mining Your Website6 reviews Jesus Mena Digital Press, 1999 Data Mining + Immediately Useful + Urgent contact Case Study and Methodology for the Data Minin             Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations (The Morgan Kaufmann ...17 reviews Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 Stop searching for datamining: You've found it. + An Excellent Data Mining Text + A good book to practice + A nice complement to the other data mining bible             Data Mining in Finance: Advances in Relational and Hybrid Methods (The Springer International Series in ...5 reviews Boris Kovalerchuk, Evgenii Vityaev Springer, 2000 It is a very informative book + Excellent book in terms outlined by its authors + Good Book It is a very informative book with all major data mining methods and their comparisons compressed into 300 pages. Therefore, a significant part of the book is not leisurely reading. This is typical for the books from Kluwer Academic Publishers. One has to be ready to spend enough time to go through ...             Building Data Mining Applications for CRM18 reviews Alex Berson, Stephen Smith, ... McGraw-Hill Companies, 1999 Very useful and informative. + Great for producers + Very good bool on the matter + Timely book for current marketing concerns + REally useful book