[wplug] OT - data mining intro

[Chris Romano]

On 7/12/06, James O'Kane <jo2y at midnightlinux.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Chris Romano wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have a recommendation on a good intro book on data
> mining?  I am
> > looking for something that gives me a good overview of the different
> aspects
> > of data mining, so I can gauge if I want to dig deeper or focus on
> something
> > else.
>
> To me, data mining is such a broad term. Do you mean looking for trends
> in a database of data you already have, or web scraping of data via a
> spider?
> Wikipedia has a long explaination of some of the facets:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining
>
> Depending on the media you want to mine from, the answer of 'a good book'
> might be different.



The  areas that I am interested in are statistical analyses, trend/pattern
recognition, and correlation in data that is either in a database or stored
locally on a machine.  I plan on using it for stock market analysis.

Thanks,
Chris
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