Data Mining For Dummies
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Data Mining For Dummies

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Data Mining For Dummies

About this book

Delve into your data for the key to success

Data mining is quickly becoming integral to creating value and business momentum. The ability to detect unseen patterns hidden in the numbers exhaustively generated by day-to-day operations allows savvy decision-makers to exploit every tool at their disposal in the pursuit of better business. By creating models and testing whether patterns hold up, it is possible to discover new intelligence that could change your business's entire paradigm for a more successful outcome.

Data Mining for Dummies shows you why it doesn't take a data scientist to gain this advantage, and empowers average business people to start shaping a process relevant to their business's needs. In this book, you'll learn the hows and whys of mining to the depths of your data, and how to make the case for heavier investment into data mining capabilities. The book explains the details of the knowledge discovery process including:

  • Model creation, validity testing, and interpretation
  • Effective communication of findings
  • Available tools, both paid and open-source
  • Data selection, transformation, and evaluation

Data Mining for Dummies takes you step-by-step through a real-world data-mining project using open-source tools that allow you to get immediate hands-on experience working with large amounts of data. You'll gain the confidence you need to start making data mining practices a routine part of your successful business. If you're serious about doing everything you can to push your company to the top, Data Mining for Dummies is your ticket to effective data mining.

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Information

Publisher
For Dummies
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781118893173
eBook ISBN
9781118893197

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents at a Glance
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: Getting Started with Data Mining
  7. Part II: Exploring Data-Mining Mantras and Methods
  8. Part III: Gathering the Raw Materials
  9. Part IV: A Data Miner’s Survival Kit
  10. Part V: More Data-Mining Methods
  11. Part VI: The Part of Tens
  12. Appendix A: Glossary
  13. Appendix B: Data-Mining Sof tware Sources
  14. Appendix C: Major Data Vendors
  15. Appendix D: Sources and Citations
  16. Index
  17. About the Author
  18. Wiley End User License Agreement