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Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications in Microsoft Office Excel with XLMiner |
Author: Galit Shmueli
Published: 2006-12-11 |
List price: $126.50
Our price: $75.90
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 Nice summary of the major data mining technologies
This book hits a nice sweet spot between the highly technical descriptions of the algorithms aimed at grad students in Computer Science or Management Science and the superficial MBA-school overview of the techniques and how to interpret the results. Well written, easy to follow, and has lots of good examples. Comes with an Excel add-on that I haven't tried yet.
 Good Response and quick
Book wss recived in good timing, and quick because i paid the quicker delivery payment. Just one thing is that the was damaged from one corner.
 Great for its niche
This book is designed for business students who have already had a course or two in statistics and want a good introduction to statistical methods for data-mining. It has the right blend of concepts and methods presented in an intuitive way. It is the best book I've seen for its intended audience.
 Useless
Pretty shallow presentation of very basic statistical algorithms. Algorithms presented without any explanation of mathematical backgrounds and assumptions when they can be used. Almost no formulas in text, just data and plots. These algorithms are standard statistical algorithms; it is not clear from the text whether "data mining" and "statistics" is the same or not.
What is worse, there is Excel library that must be used with the book. All examples are in the context of this library. LICENSE LASTS ONLY 6 MONTH. Means, after 6 month you can put quite expensive ($100) book in trash. Or spend few thousand bucks for full license, what taking into account the "sophistication" of the library would be wasting of money. Take R language that is free and infinitely more powerful.
Warning if you purchase used book: each copy of the book has unique license ID that must be used to download the software. Once downloaded, this software cannot be downoaded second time. This means that it is not possible to download software if you purchased used book
Practical hands-on introduction to data mining
This book is a great hands-on introduction to data mining. It comes bundled with XLMiner, an Excel add-in that implements popular classification and prediction methods. The chapter examples, problems, and datasets are interesting and challenging. I have used this book and accompanying material in an online course at statistics.com effectively for several years.
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