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The previous KDnuggets poll asked: What books you like as introductory or textbooks for data mining ?

The most popular books were

• Han & Kamber, Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
• Witten & Frank, Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations (note: 2nd edition is coming out soon!).
• Hand, Mannila & Smyth, Principles of Data Mining
• Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman, The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

Here is updated list of Introductory and Textbooks on Data Mining.