Why and what is data mining? -- The virtuous cycle of data mining -- Data mining methodology and best practices -- Data mining applications in marketing and customer relationship management -- The lure of statistics: data mining using familiar tools -- Decision trees -- Artificial neural...

MICHAEL J. A. BERRY and GORDON S. LINOFF are the founders of Data Miners, Inc., a consultancy specializing in data mining. They have jointly authored some of the leading data mining titles in the field, Data Mining Techniques, Mastering Data Mining, and Mining the Web (all from Wiley). They each...