On 7/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James O'Kane</b> <<a href="mailto:jo2y@midnightlinux.com">jo2y@midnightlinux.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Chris Romano wrote:<br><br>> Does anyone have a recommendation on a good intro book on data mining? I am<br>> looking for something that gives me a good overview of the different aspects<br>> of data mining, so I can gauge if I want to dig deeper or focus on something
<br>> else.<br><br>To me, data mining is such a broad term. Do you mean looking for trends<br>in a database of data you already have, or web scraping of data via a<br>spider?<br>Wikipedia has a long explaination of some of the facets:
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining</a><br><br>Depending on the media you want to mine from, the answer of 'a good book'<br>might be different.</blockquote><div>
<br><br>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.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Chris<br></div><br></div><br>