Data Analysis and Mining

This book provides the concepts and techniques in processing gathered data or information which will be used in various applications. Specifically it explains data mining and the tools used in discovering knowledge from the collected data. This book is referred as the knowledge discovery from data (KDD). It focuses on the feasibility usefulness effectiveness and scalability of techniques of large data sets. After describing data mining this edition explains the methods of knowing pre-processing processing and warehousing data. It then presents information about data warehouses online analytical processing (OLAP) and data cube technology. Then the methods involved in mining frequent patterns associations and correlations for large data sets are described.