New book: Data Mining Concepts and Techniques 3rd edition (2011)
Date: October 10, 2011 07:40PM
Hello,
This is to let you know that the third edition of the data mining book "Data Mining Concepts and Techniques" by Han & Kamber is out (2011). The previous edition was published in 2006.
The new edition has been updated to cover many new topics. It is probably the best reference book for data mining now. It covers a wide range of topics from stream data mining, clustering, frequent pattern mining, to data warehouses and OLAP.
I have read several data mining books recently. My main complain about the book of Han & Kamber is that many subjects are discussed too briefly. Therefore, for many topics, there is not enough information for implementing the algorithms that are discussed. Therefore, I recommend this book as a reference book rather than as a book for beginners. For beginners, I recommend the book of Tan, Steinbach & Kumar. It covers less topics but it discusses them in more details.
The book of Han & Kamber presents the field of data mining from a database perspective. It will be appropriate for students in Computer Science.
For people more interested in applying algorithms rather than designing or implementing them, the book by I. H. Witten about Weka from 2011, may be a more suitable book than the one of Han & Kamber.
Phil
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