Data Mining

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Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography.

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2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence "Texty" Award Winner

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Fifth Edition, offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts, along with practical advice on applying these tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly anticipated new edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine learning teaches readers everything they need to know to get going, from preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, to the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining approaches.

Extensive updates reflect the technical changes and modernizations that have taken place in the field since the last edition, including more recent deep learning content on topics such as generative AI (GANs, VAEs, diffusion models), large language models (transformers, BERT and GPT models), and adversarial examples, as well as a comprehensive treatment of ethical and responsible artificial intelligence topics. Authors Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank, Mark A. Hall, and Christopher J. Pal, along with new author James R. Foulds, include today’s techniques coupled with the methods at the leading edge of contemporary research

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PART I: INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING

1. What’s it all about?
2. Input: concepts, instances, attributes
3. Output: knowledge representation
4. Algorithms: the basic methods
5. Credibility: evaluating what’s been learned
6. Preparation: data preprocessing and exploratory data analysis
7. Ethics: what are the impacts of what's been learned?

PART II: MORE ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING SCHEMES
8. Ensemble learning
9. Extending instance-based and linear models
10. Deep learning: fundamentals
11. Advanced deep learning methods
12. Beyond supervised and unsupervised learning
13. Probabilistic methods: fundamentals
14. Advanced probabilistic methods
15. Moving on: applications and their consequences