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This chapter gives a brief overview of the field of Data Mining. The topics covered are the data explosion, the knowledge discovery process, applications of data mining, labelled and unlabelled data, supervised learning: classification and numerical prediction, and unsupervised learning: association rules and clustering.
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Bramer, M. (2013). Introduction to Data Mining. In: Principles of Data Mining. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4884-5_1
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