Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

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Summary: Have Large Data sets to Analyse?
Review: As computer usage keeps increasing, the amount of data being stored on disks worldwide also rises. Many terabytes by now, if not a petabyte or two.

Companies often have gigabytes of data that need to be analysed. This book is a very useful compendium of techniques that can be applied to the data. Because it may be that a sophisticated understanding of your data is a strategic advantage to your company. If not a core competence.

The book covers data in many different fields. From financial, engineering, medical and even bioinformatic. The methods applied to these data span the gamut from Artificial Intelligence to neural networks. While some methods are specific to the type of data being studied, the astute reader may be able to modify these for her own situation.