Special Features: · Best-in-class data mining techniques for solving critical problems in all areas of business· Explains how to pick the right data mining techniques for specific problems· Shows how to perform analysis and evaluate results· Features real-world examples from across various industry sectors· Companion Web site with updates on data mining products and service providers About The Book: Companies have invested in building data warehouses to capture vast amounts of customer information. The payoff comes with mining or getting access to the data within this information gold mine to make better business decisions. Readers and reviewers loved Berry and Linoff's first book, Data Mining Techniques, because the authors so clearly illustrate practical techniques with real benefits for improved marketing and sales. Mastering Data Mining takes off from there-assuming readers know the basic techniques covered in the first book, the authors focus on how to best apply these techniques to real business cases. They start with simple applications and work up to the most powerful and sophisticated examples over the course of about 20 cases. (Ralph Kimball used this same approach in his highly successful Data Warehouse Toolkit). As with their first book, Mastering Data Mining is sufficiently technical for database analysts, but is accessible to technically savvy business and marketing managers. It should also appeal to a new breed of database marketing managers.

"Berry and Linoff lead the reader down an enlightened path of best practices." -Dr. Jim Goodnight, President and Cofounder, SAS Institute Inc. "This is a great book, and it will be in my stack of four or five essential resources for my professional work." -Ralph Kimball, Author of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit Mastering Data Mining In this follow-up to their successful first book, Data Mining Techniques, Michael J. A. Berry and Gordon S. Linoff offer a case study-based guide to best practices in commercial data mining. Their first book acquainted you with the new generation of data mining tools and techniques and showed you how to use them to make better business decisions. Mastering Data Mining shifts the focus from understanding data mining techniques to achieving business results, placing particular emphasis on customer relationship management. In this book, you'll learn how to apply data mining techniques to solve practical business problems. After providing the fundamental principles of data mining and customer relationship management, Berry and Linoff share the lessons they have learned through a series of warts-and-all case studies drawn from their experience in a variety of industries, including e-commerce, banking, cataloging, retailing, and telecommunications. Through the cases, you will learn how to formulate the business problem, analyze the data, evaluate the results, and utilize this information for similar business problems in different industries. Berry and Linoff show you how to use data mining to:Retain customer loyaltyTarget the right prospectsIdentify new markets for products and servicesRecognize cross-selling opportunities on and off the Web The companion Web site at http://www.data-miners.com features:Updated information on data mining products and service providersInformation on data mining conferences, courses, and other sources of informationFull-color versions of the illustrations used in the book.

Uncover Hidden Insights and Patterns in Your Data Are you ready to delve into the fascinating realm of data mining? "Mastering Data Mining" is your ultimate guide to unlocking the potential of extracting hidden insights and patterns from your data. Whether you're a data scientist aiming to uncover valuable information or a business professional seeking to make informed decisions, this book equips you with the knowledge and techniques to master the art of data mining. Key Features: 1. Journey into Data Mining: Immerse yourself in the world of data mining, understanding its significance, methodologies, and applications. Build a solid foundation that empowers you to extract meaningful insights from complex datasets. 2. Data Exploration and Preparation: Master the art of data exploration and preparation. Learn how to clean, transform, and preprocess data for effective mining. 3. Exploratory Data Analysis: Delve into exploratory data analysis techniques. Explore visualization, statistical summaries, and data profiling to gain a deeper understanding of your dataset. 4. Supervised Learning Techniques: Uncover the power of supervised learning techniques. Learn how to build predictive models for classification and regression tasks, enabling you to make accurate predictions. 5. Unsupervised Learning and Clustering: Discover unsupervised learning and clustering methods. Explore techniques for grouping similar data points and identifying hidden patterns without predefined labels. 6. Association Rule Mining: Master association rule mining for uncovering relationships in data. Learn how to identify frequent itemsets and extract valuable associations. 7. Text and Web Mining: Explore text and web mining techniques. Learn how to extract insights from textual data and discover patterns in web-based information. 8. Time Series Mining: Delve into time series mining for analyzing sequential data. Learn how to forecast trends, identify anomalies, and make predictions based on temporal patterns. 9. Data Mining Tools and Algorithms: Uncover a range of data mining tools and algorithms. Explore classic algorithms and modern techniques for various data mining tasks. 10. Real-World Applications: Gain insights into real-world use cases of data mining across industries. From customer segmentation to fraud detection, explore how organizations leverage data mining for strategic advantage. Who This Book Is For: "Mastering Data Mining" is an indispensable resource for data scientists, analysts, and business professionals who want to excel in uncovering insights from data. Whether you're new to data mining or seeking advanced techniques, this book will guide you through the intricacies and empower you to harness the full potential of data mining. © 2023 Cybellium Ltd. All rights reserved. www.cybellium.com

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques provides the concepts and techniques in processing gathered data or information, which will be used in various applications. Specifically, it explains data mining and the tools used in discovering knowledge from the collected data. This book is referred as the knowledge discovery from data (KDD). It focuses on the feasibility, usefulness, effectiveness, and scalability of techniques of large data sets. After describing data mining, this edition explains the methods of knowing, preprocessing, processing, and warehousing data. It then presents information about data warehouses, online analytical processing (OLAP), and data cube technology. Then, the methods involved in mining frequent patterns, associations, and correlations for large data sets are described. The book details the methods for data classification and introduces the concepts and methods for data clustering. The remaining chapters discuss the outlier detection and the trends, applications, and research frontiers in data mining. This book is intended for Computer Science students, application developers, business professionals, and researchers who seek information on data mining. - Presents dozens of algorithms and implementation examples, all in pseudo-code and suitable for use in real-world, large-scale data mining projects - Addresses advanced topics such as mining object-relational databases, spatial databases, multimedia databases, time-series databases, text databases, the World Wide Web, and applications in several fields - Provides a comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques you need to get the most out of your data

Many companies have invested in building large databases and data warehouses capable of storing vast amounts of information. This book offers business, sales and marketing managers a practical guide to accessing such information.

Acquire and analyze data from all corners of the social web with Python About This Book Make sense of highly unstructured social media data with the help of the insightful use cases provided in this guide Use this easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to apply analytics to complicated and messy social data This is your one-stop solution to fetching, storing, analyzing, and visualizing social media data Who This Book Is For This book is for intermediate Python developers who want to engage with the use of public APIs to collect data from social media platforms and perform statistical analysis in order to produce useful insights from data. The book assumes a basic understanding of the Python Standard Library and provides practical examples to guide you toward the creation of your data analysis project based on social data. What You Will Learn Interact with a social media platform via their public API with Python Store social data in a convenient format for data analysis Slice and dice social data using Python tools for data science Apply text analytics techniques to understand what people are talking about on social media Apply advanced statistical and analytical techniques to produce useful insights from data Build beautiful visualizations with web technologies to explore data and present data products In Detail Your social media is filled with a wealth of hidden data – unlock it with the power of Python. Transform your understanding of your clients and customers when you use Python to solve the problems of understanding consumer behavior and turning raw data into actionable customer insights. This book will help you acquire and analyze data from leading social media sites. It will show you how to employ scientific Python tools to mine popular social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Quora, and more. Explore the Python libraries used for social media mining, and get the tips, tricks, and insider insight you need to make the most of them. Discover how to develop data mining tools that use a social media API, and how to create your own data analysis projects using Python for clear insight from your social data. Style and approach This practical, hands-on guide will help you learn everything you need to perform data mining for social media. Throughout the book, we take an example-oriented approach to use Python for data analysis and provide useful tips and tricks that you can use in day-to-day tasks.