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To explain data mining from a computer science perspective, I think that the two best books on data mining are:

"Introduction to data mining" by Tan, Steinbach and Kumar. It is well-expl ...

I think that it depends on what you want to do.

If you want to work more from a computer science perspective and write some efficient data mining and machine learning algorithms, then being good ...

You are welcome.

Good luck!

I see.

Then maybe you could have a look at CBA (classification by association rules) and similar algorithms CPAR, CMAR....

The idea is to use association rules to perform a classification task. ...

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You could use association rules. But association rules do not consider the sequential order. For example, if you have a rule X ==> Y with a confidence of 60 %, it just means that if X appea ...

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To transform your values so that they are in the [0, 1] interval, you can do as follows.

Let's consider age first.

What is the maximum age? It is 65. So you can divide all the ages by 6 ...

>>similiar to how java or python (OOP) is used data mining...!

Java and Python are general purpose programming languages.

>> I thought OOP was used to interact with databases and ma ...

Thanks for the article.

Another good introduction to clustering is this chapter:

http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kumar/dmbook/ch8.pdf

Great website. But it would be great if you could add more contents! :-)

Personally, I would go to KDD because I think that it is bigger and has a better reputation. But SIAM is also a very good conference. If I had to choose between attending one or the other, I would co ...