This book focuses on exploratory data analysis, learning of latent structures in datasets, and unscrambling of knowledge. Coverage details a broad range of methods from multivariate statistics, clustering and classification, visualization and scaling as well as from data and time series analysis. It provides new approaches for information retrieval and data mining and reports a host of challenging applications in various fields.

Inhalt
Clustering.- Classification.- Data and Time Series Analysis.- Visualization and Scaling Methods.- Information Retrieval, Data and Web Mining.- Marketing, Management Science and Economics.- Banking and Finance.- Bio- and Health Sciences.- Linguistics and Text Analysis.- Statistical Musicology and Sound Classification.- Archaeology.