Provides both theoretical and practical coverage of all data mining topics.
Includes extensive number of integrated examples and figures.
Offers instructor resources including solutions for exercises and complete set of lecture slides.
Assumes only a modest statistics or mathematics background, and no database knowledge is needed.
Topics covered include; predictive modeling, association analysis, clustering, anomaly detection, visualization.

If you've read Stieg Larsson, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" &c., you'll love Nora Ephron's parody:

Adam Phillips reviews Gary Greenberg's MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION

AmazonCrossing—Bringing Exceptional International Books to English-Language Readers - #amazon does more publishing

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RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Data - Only $9.99 use code DDBDA

An aerial plankton, an ocean over our heads: Insectopedia #books #wildlife #garden #animals #biodiversity #insect

More library porn

RT @txvoodoo: Amazon creates a Free Book Collection page, makes it easy to find classics:

Google Book Settlement: Fairness Hearing Report - detailed, fascinating, illuminating #google #books

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels & the Business of AIDS– a must-read for the socially-conscious global citizen

'iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual' by @chockenberry is going to be huge. #iphone #app #books

Free eBooks: Great Books on Your PC, iPhone, Kindle

http://bit.ly/5DaLOA *Wow, a 2009 fiction list full of stuff I've never heard of that I'd actually like to read.

Nice to see Best iPhone Apps and Getting Started with Arduino in the BoingBoing gift guide:

...'what children's drawings would look like if they were painted realistically'

New post by @monkchips "blew my head clean off". How many so-called “soc media experts” have read any network theory?" http://bit.ly/2hfWSc

VanderMeer's Booklife: excellent guide to living the writerly life in the 21st Cen http://tinyurl.com/ygkpv7k

Freakonomics Sequel Gets Climate Change Wrong - http://bit.ly/xY7e1 getting things this wrong is not v. helpful, particularly now

How SuperFreakonomics Gets Climate Engineering Wrong: The new book Superfreakonomics... http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/energy/24274/

The Snake Detection Theory posits a fascinating relationship between serpents and primates

met at naomi's house

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By the time J. G. Ballard died in April of this year, talk of his long struggle with cancer should have prepared his followers (“fans” is too pale a word for the devotion Ballard inspired), yet the news still came as a shock. Ballard was, unmistakably, a literary futurist, at ease in the cold ruins of the millennium a lifetime sooner than the rest of us; his passing registered as a disorienting claim of time upon the timeless. Whether you embrace or reject on his behalf the label “science-fiction writer” will indicate whether you regard it as praiseful or damning, but no one reading Ballard could doubt the tidal gravity of his intellect or the stark visionary consistency of the motifs that earned him that rarest of literary awards, an adjective: Ballardian. Now, and not a moment too soon, comes The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard (Norton, $35), a staggering 1,200-page collection of a lifetime’s labors in the medium in which Ballard was perhaps most at home.