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Advanced Techniques in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)

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Data mining methods continue to improve, and this book gives you a good sense of where the field is currently at. A wide gamut of ideas.

For example, there is a good discussion of new clustering techniques. Closely related, and in practice inseparable, are visualisation methods that can be applied to such clusters. The sheer mass of information in the clusters makes strong visualisation a necessity for a manual comprehension of the data. If nothing else, it can be used to see if the clusters make sense, in the context of your application. The text describes an example implementation, to retail data. But a careful reading of the methods show that they are potentially quite general.