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...

The leading introductory book on data mining, fully updated and revised! When Berry and Linoff wrote the first edition of Data Mining Techniques in the late 1990s, data mining was just starting to move out of the lab and into the office and has since grown to become an indispensable tool of...

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...