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Description
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Fourth Edition, offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts, along with practical advice on applying these tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated fourth edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning teaches readers everything they need to know to get going, from preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, to the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining approaches.

Extensive updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including substantial new chapters on probabilistic methods and on deep learning. Accompanying the book is a new version of the popular WEKA machine learning software from the University of Waikato. Authors Witten, Frank, Hall, and Pal include today´s techniques coupled with the methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. View more >

Key Features
Provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts, as well as practical advice on applying the tools and techniques to data mining projects
Presents concrete tips and techniques for performance improvement that work by transforming the input or output in machine learning methods
Includes a downloadable WEKA software toolkit, a comprehensive collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks-in an easy-to-use interactive interface
Includes open-access online courses that introduce practical applications of the material in the book



Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Updated and Revised Content
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction to data mining
Chapter 1. What's it all about?
Abstract
1.1 Data Mining and Machine Learning
1.2 Simple Examples: The Weather Problem and Others
1.3 Fielded Applications
1.4 The Data Mining Process
1.5 Machine Learning and Statistics
1.6 Generalization as Search
1.7 Data Mining and Ethics
1.8 Further Reading and Bibliographic Notes
Chapter 2. Input: Concepts, instances, attributes
Abstract
2.1 What's a Concept?
2.2 What's in an Example?
2.3 What's in an Attribute?
2.4 Preparing the Input
2.5 Further Reading and Bibliographic Notes
Chapter 3. Output: Knowledge representation
Abstract
3.1 Tables
3.2 Linear Models
3.3 Trees
3.4 Rules
3.5 Instance-Based Representation
3.6 Clusters
3.7 Further Reading and Bibliographic Notes
Chapter 4. Algorithms: The basic methods
Abstracts
4.1 Inferring Rudimentary Rules
4.2 Simple Probabilistic Modeling
4.3 Divide-and-Conquer: Constructing Decision Trees
4.4 Covering Algorithms: Constructing Rules
4.5 Mining Association Rules
4.6 Linear Models
4.7 Instance-Based Learning
4.8 Clustering
4.9 Multi-instance Learning
4.10 Further Reading and Bibliographic Notes
4.11 Weka Implementations
Chapter 5. Credibility: Evaluating what's been learned
Abstract
5.1 Training and Testing
5.2 Predicting Performance
5.3 Cross-Validation
5.4 Other Estimates
5.5 Hyperparameter Selection