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This book provides an introduction to text mining using some of the most popular and powerful open-source tools: KNIME, RapidMiner, Weka, R, and Python. The contributors explain how text data are gathered and processed from a wide variety of sources, including books, server access logs, websites, social media sites, and message boards. Each chapter presents a case study that readers can follow as part of a step-by-step, reproducible example. The examples used are available on a supplementary website.

This textbook provides a tutorial-based introduction to data mining with a focus on model building and testing, as well as on interpreting and validating results. The book follows the format of the first edition, but with updates and additions throughout.

The book is designed for practitioners in data science and data analytics in both academic and business environments. The aim is to present the reader with the main concepts used in data analytics using tools developed in Python, such as SciKit Learn, Pandas, Numpy, etc.

Supplying a comprehensive overview of healthcare analytics research, Healthcare Data Analytics provides an understanding of the analytical techniques currently available to solve healthcare problems. The book details novel techniques for acquiring, handling, retrieving, and making best use of healthcare data. It analyzes recent developments in healthcare computing and discusses emerging technologies that can help improve the health and well-being of patients. Written by prominent researchers and experts working in the healthcare domain, it sheds light on the computational challenges in the field of medical informatics.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph analysis in the study of social media and digital media. It covers the following topics: graphs in social media, graph theory, algebraic analysis of graphs, graph clustering, diffusion in social media, label propagation in graphs, graphs in pattern recognition and machine learning, tensors in graph analysis, recommendation systems based on hypergraphs, big data approaches for social media and graph clustering and graph-based approaches for evolving social data.

Research on the problem of classification tends to be fragmented across such areas as pattern recognition, database, data mining, and machine learning. Addressing the work of these different communities in a unified way, this book explores the underlying algorithms of classification as well as applications of classification in a variety of problem domains, including text, multimedia, social network, and biological data. It presents core methods in data classification, covers recent problem domains, and discusses advanced methods for enhancing the quality of the underlying classification results.

This book presents tools and techniques for descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics applicable across multiple domains. The author first covers core descriptive and inferential statistics for analytics and then enhances numerical statistical techniques with symbolic artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques for richer predictive and prescriptive analytics. Through many examples and challenging case studies from a variety of fields, practitioners easily see the connections to their own problems and can then formulate their own solution strategies.

Written by leaders in the data mining community, including the developers of the RapidMiner software, this book provides an in-depth introduction to the application of data mining and business analytics techniques and tools in scientific research, medicine, industry, commerce, and diverse other sectors. It presents the most powerful and flexible open source software solutions: RapidMiner and RapidAnalytics. The book and software tools cover all relevant steps of the data mining process. The software and their extensions can be freely downloaded at www.RapidMiner.com.

Support Vector Machines: Optimization Based Theory, Algorithms, and Extensions presents an accessible treatment of the two main components of support vector machines (SVMs)-classification problems and regression problems. The book emphasizes the close connection between optimization theory and SVMs since optimization is one of the pillars on which SVMs are built. The authors share insight on many of their research achievements. They give a precise interpretation of statistical leaning theory for C-support vector classification. They also discuss regularized twin SVMs for binary classification problems, SVMs for solving multi-classification problems based on ordinal regression, SVMs for semi-supervised problems, and SVMs for problems with perturbations. To improve readability, concepts, methods, and results are introduced graphically and with clear explanations. For important concepts and algorithms, such as the Crammer-Singer SVM for multi-class classification problems, the text provides geometric interpretations that are not depicted in current literature. Enabling a sound understanding of SVMs, this book gives beginners as well as more experienced researchers and engineers the tools to solve real-world problems using SVMs.

Going beyond performing simple analyses, researchers involved in the highly dynamic field of computational intelligent data analysis design algorithms that solve increasingly complex data problems in changing environments, including economic, environmental, and social data. This volume presents novel methodologies for automatically processing these types of data to support rational decision making for sustainable development. Through numerous case studies and applications, it illustrates important data analysis methods, including mathematical optimization, machine learning, signal processing, and temporal and spatial analysis, for quantifying and describing sustainable development problems.

This work collects recent results from this specialized area of data mining that have previously been scattered in the literature, making them more accessible to researchers and developers in data mining and other fields. The book not only presents concepts and techniques for contrast data mining, but also explores the use of contrast mining to solve challenging problems in various scientific, medical, and business domains. It examines how contrast mining is used in discriminative gene transfer and microarray analysis, computational toxicology, spatial and image data classification, network security, and many more applications.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various data mining tools and techniques that are increasingly being used by researchers in the international astronomy community. It explores this new problem domain, discussing how it could lead to the development of entirely new algorithms. Leading contributors introduce data mining methods and then describe how the methods can be implemented into astronomy applications. The last section of the book discusses the Redshift Prediction Competition, which is an astronomy competition in the style of the Netflix Prize.

Advances in digital music technology have created challenges for effectively accessing and interacting with large collections of music and associated data. This book explores how data mining addresses these challenges by mining useful information and using it to create novel ways of interacting with large music collections. Leading experts in data mining, machine learning, and music science examine fundamental issues of classification and audio signal processing and discuss social aspects of music mining. They also present new research in instrument recognition, mood and emotion classification, and hit song prediction science.

In this book, top researchers from around the world cover the entire area of clustering, from basic methods to more refined and complex data clustering approaches. They pay special attention to recent issues in graphs, social networks, and other domains. The book explores the characteristics of clustering problems in a variety of application areas. It also explains how to glean detailed insight from the clustering process¿including how to verify the quality of the underlying clusters¿through supervision, human intervention, or the automated generation of alternative clusters.

Educational data mining (EDM) is an emerging discipline concerned with developing methods for exploring the different types of data that come from an educational context. This book presents the applications of data mining techniques in education.

Assuming no prior knowledge of mathematics or data mining, this self-contained book presents a "do-it-yourself" approach to extracting interesting patterns from graph data. Each chapter focuses on a graph mining task, such as link analysis, cluster analysis, and classification. Through many applications, the book demonstrates how computational techniques can help solve real-world problems. Every algorithm and example is accompanied with R code, allowing readers to see how the algorithmic techniques correspond to the process of graph data analysis and to use the graph mining techniques in practice.

Covers privacy and anonymity for data mining applications. This book presents novel application domains, such as data mining of biomedical and healthcare data. It addresses spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data as well graphs, links, and social networks. It details privacy-aware data publishing and mining of data streams.

Exploring existing and emerging work in the field, this volume shows how specification mining techniques can help find software bugs and improve program understanding. Top researchers in the software engineering community provide valuable insight on up-to-date case studies of various software systems, including open source programs and those used by Microsoft Research and IBM Research. The book focuses on mining both finite state machines and temporal rules/patterns of behavior. It presents approaches that use static analysis, dynamic analysis, and combinations of the two.

Covers the capabilities and limitations of constrained clustering. This title presents various types of constraints for clustering, describes useful variations of the standard problem of clustering under constraints, and applies clustering with constraints to relational, bibliographic, and video data.

Compatible with SAS version 9, SAS Enterprise Guide, and SAS Learning Edition, this resource describes statistical data mining concepts and methods and includes 13 user-friendly SAS macro applications for performing complete data mining tasks. Each chapter emphasizes step-by-step instructions for using SAS macros and interpreting the results.

Exploiting the information found in electronic health records (EHRs) can facilitate better medical research and improve the quality of medical practice. Addressing the challenges of leveraging this information, this book explores the technology to unleash the data stored in EHRs.

Focusing on data mining mechanics and applications, this book explores some of the most common matrix decompositions, including singular value, semidiscrete, independent component analysis, non-negative matrix factorization, and tensors. It also discusses several important theoretical and algorithmic problems of matrix decompositions.

Exploring how to extract knowledge structures from evolving and time-changingdata, "Knowledge Discovery from Data Streams" presents a coherent overview ofstate-of-the-art research in learning from data streams.

Through the techniques of data mining, this book demonstrates how to effectively design business processes and develop competitive products and services. It discusses how data mining can identify valuable consumer patterns, which aid marketers and designers in detecting consumers' needs.

Presents a fresh approach to knowledge discovery in adversarial settings. Focusing on the four main applications areas in knowledge discovery (prediction, clustering, relationship discovery, and textual analysis), this book discusses opportunities for concealment that exist and recommends tactics that can aid in detecting them.

Focuses on statistical methods for text mining and analysis. This work examines methods to automatically cluster and classify text documents and applies these methods in a variety of areas, including adaptive information filtering, information distillation, and text search.