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Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications [Hardcover]

Robert Nisbet , John Elder IV , Gary Miner
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June 5, 2009 0123747651 978-0123747655 1
The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The Handbook helps one discern the technical and business problem, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms, and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. Use this book to address massive and complex datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques, and discusses their application to real problems, in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across industries - from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce. This handbook brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner will need to understand the tools and issues in data mining to build successful data mining solutions.

  • Written "By Practitioners for Practitioners"

  • Non-technical explanations build understanding without jargon and equations

  • Tutorials in numerous fields of study provide step-by-step instruction on how to use supplied tools to build models using Statistica, SAS and SPSS software

  • Practical advice from successful real-world implementations

  • Includes extensive case studies, examples, MS PowerPoint slides and datasets

  • CD-DVD with valuable fully-working  90-day software included:  "Complete Data Miner - QC-Miner - Text Miner" bound with book

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"I strongly resonated to the Top 10 Data Mining mistakes....  There is a wealth of material in this handbook that will repay study."

- Peter Lachenbruch, Oregon State U., Past President, American Statistical Society (from Foreword 1)

Data mining practitioners, here is your bible, the complete "driver's manual" for data mining. From starting the engine to handling the curves, this book covers the gamut of data mining techniques - including predictive analytics and text mining - illustrating how to achieve maximal value across business, scientific, engineering and medical applications. What are the best practices through each phase of a data mining project? How can you avoid the most treacherous pitfalls? The answers are in here.

Going beyond its responsibility as a reference book, this resource also provides detailed tutorials with step-by-step instructions to drive established data mining software tools across real world applications. This way, newcomers start their engines immediately and experience hands-on success.

If you want to roll-up your sleeves and execute on predictive analytics, this is your definite, go-to resource. To put it lightly, if this book isn't on your shelf, you're not a data miner.

- Eric Siegel, Ph.D., President, Prediction Impact, Inc. and Founding Chair, Predictive Analytics World

"Great introduction to the real-world process of data mining. The overviews, practical advise, tutorials, and extra CD material make this book an invaluable resource for both new and experienced data miners."

-- Karl Rexer, PhD (President & Founder of Rexer Analytics, Boston, Massachusetts)

... a valuable resource... The book's straightforward style--it presents intuitive explanations and avoids rigorous mathematical formulations--makes difficult concepts accessible to a broad audience.
-ACM Computing Reviews


"...an exceptional book that should be on every data miner's bookshelf, or better yet, found lying open next to the computer."

Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics --from Foreword 2

Data mining practitioners, here is your bible, the complete "driver's manual" for data mining. From starting the engine to handling the curves, this book covers the gamut of data mining techniques - including predictive analytics and text mining - illustrating how to achieve maximal value across business, scientific, engineering and medical applications. What are the best practices through each phase of a data mining project? How can you avoid the most treacherous pitfalls? The answers are in here.

Going beyond its responsibility as a reference book, this resource also provides detailed tutorials with step-by-step instructions to drive established data mining software tools across real world applications. This way, newcomers start their engines immediately and experience hands-on success.

If you want to roll-up your sleeves and execute on predictive analytics, this is your definite, go-to resource. To put it lightly, if this book isn't on your shelf, you're not a data miner.

- Eric Siegel, Ph.D., President, Prediction Impact, Inc. and Founding Chair, Predictive Analytics World

"Great introduction to the real-world process of data mining. The overviews, practical advise, tutorials, and extra CD material make this book an invaluable resource for both new and experienced data miners.”

-- Karl Rexer, PhD (President & Founder of Rexer Analytics, Boston, Massachusetts)

From the Back Cover

Tutorials employ leading software tools including STATISTICA Data Miner, SPSS Clementine, and SAS Enterprise Miner -- and show practitioners how to solve real-world data mining challenges in a wide variety of fields, including sales, medical diagnosis, finance, aviation engineering, marketing, banking, pharmaceutical discovery, industrial control, weather forecasting, clinical psychology, ecology, astronomy, and social networks.

This handbook brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner will need to understand the tools and issues in data mining to build practical solutions.  Using the methods of this book produces new KNOWLEDGE that facilitates DECISIONS which lead to ACTIONS that result in SUCCESS.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 864 pages
  • Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (June 5, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123747651
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123747655
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful
By James
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is for practitioners, not for those seeking a deeper understanding of data mining. It both makes and delivers on that claim. All major data mining topics are covered, though in a necessarily shallow manner in keeping with the book's goal of getting past the theory and moving to the practice.

Oddly, the very start of the book does have a bit of theory in the form of the historical roots of statistics and the limitations of statistics that leads to the need for data mining; I found this bit of history quite fascinating and enlightening; it is something I've found in few other data mining books, and I've read several.

The trouble is, I do like theory a bit. I have a master's in computer science, so I'm a bit biased that way, thus my relatively low scoring of the work.

About 1/3rd of the book is dedicated to working through real problems, and that is the overwhelming strength of the book. If you are one who learns by doing rather than by theorizing, you'll find this book outstanding.

The biggest criticism I have of the book is that it is clear that there are significant parts where the authors just didn't have their hearts in it; it felt like they wrote certain sections because the publisher told them they had to in order to hit some type of target marketing segment.

It's also unfortunate that all three software products provided expire in 90 days or less. I'm never one to accomplish anything in 90 days, let alone get through a 700-page technical work!!! I know they are the 3 top mining tools, but I much prefer RapidMiner, a product that is amazingly feature-rich, so easy to use it is actually fun, supported by a robust open-source model, and free.

Overall, a solid work. But to me, theory matters, that's one star down; and rigorous, enthusiastic writing matters, so that's two stars down. In the 3-stars that remain is lots of hands-on practice if you don't mind expiring software, and for that it is very strong.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The top data mining text on the market June 18, 2009
Format:Hardcover
The "Handbook of Statistical Analysis & Data Mining Applications" is the finest book I have seen on the subject. It is not only a beautifully crafted book, with numerous color graphs, chart, tables, and screen shots, but the statistical discussion is both clear and comprehensive.

The text does not use only one statistical data mining application to display examples, but provides a rather thorough training in the use of both SAS-Enterprise Miner and STATISTICA Data Miner. A section on SPSS Clementine is also provided, giving comparisons between the various packages. Also employed are STATISTICA's C&RT, CHAID, MARSpline, and other data mining and graphical analytic tools.

The text does not burden the typical data mining researcher with the internals of how the various tools work. It is therefore not steeped in equations. Some are to be found, of course, but the emphasis is on understanding the concepts involved and on how to apply these concepts to real data - which is provided to the reader in terms of data tutorials. Specialized datasets have been prepared by both authors and outside experts in various areas of inquiry ranging from entertainment, financial, engineering, clinical psychology, dentistry, demographics, medical informatics, meteorology, astronomy, and more. Each tutorial is associated with data stored on either the associated CD that comes with the book, or which can be downloaded from a companion web site. Worked out examples of how to use data mining techniques on such data is provided to help the reader gain a solid feel for the data mining enterprise. The final third of the book is devoted to a partial selection of the available tutorials. The two earlier chapters demonstrate how to use data mining software for the analysis of data.

I highly recommend this work to anyone having an interest in data mining. I might also add that the Amazon price of $72.37 is truly excellent for an 864 page academic text, having full color tables and screen shots on some one-third of the pages, plus a CD. A bargain indeed.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I really liked this book June 27, 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had experience with many of the statistical tools that fall under the heading of data mining. There are good books on GAMs and so on. What I like about this book is that it embeds those methods in a broader context, that of the philosophy and structure of data mining writ large, especially as the methods are used in the corporate world. To me, it was really helpful in thinking like a data miner, especially as it involves the mix of science and art.

I also had no experience with Statistica Data Miner but have been very impressed with the program relative to those that are less well documented (WEKA) and too darned expensive (SAS EM)

The richness of the examples is so helpful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value!
The handbook has practical hands on advice and examples from industry leaders and I would definitely recommend it to others in the field.
Published 1 month ago by Anni Russell
5.0 out of 5 stars The Bible of Data Mining
Data mining practitioners, here is your bible, the complete "driver's manual" for data mining. From starting the engine to handling the curves, this book covers the gamut of data... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Eric Siegel
5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh addition to any data miner library
The book from Robert Nisbet, John Elder and Gary Miner is a fresh addition to any data miner library. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sandro Saitta
2.0 out of 5 stars Useful for entry level
I am a big Statistica fan. I have read a few DM books, and found this one to be in the low quartile. It really lacks any kind of rigor contained in many other DM books. Read more
Published 3 months ago by George Rodriguez
1.0 out of 5 stars HORRIBLE
I really tried to like this book, and read through first 4-5 chapters, but I discovered there's little to learn from the book. Read more
Published 6 months ago by %macC%
1.0 out of 5 stars Either the Authors or the Editors Called It In
As someone forced to become conversant with data mining as part of my day job, I wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, that was impossible. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Maryland Crab
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book
Fantastic book

Pros
Tons and tons of step by step tutorials(one really cool one was looking at the traits of titanic survivors)
Focuses on the actual... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource
I like this book as a resource to use during data mining projects. It is a good for review and exploration of methods to augment the methods that I am most familiar with. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Stuart M. Rodgers
2.0 out of 5 stars More focused on software applications than methodology
The over the top focus on software applications rather than on background or methodology behind data mining made this book very unhelpful. Read more
Published 23 months ago by M. King
2.0 out of 5 stars Is it a user manual? Is it a how-to book?
I wanted a DM book that systematically organized and explained the following:

1. An overview of the most popular DM techniques
2. Read more
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