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It is the purpose of this chapter to introduce and explain fundamental aspects about data mining used throughout the present book. These are related to: what is data mining, why to use data mining, how to mine data? There are also discussed: data mining solvable problems, issues concerning the modeling process and models, main data mining applications, methodology and terminology used in data mining.
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Gorunescu, F. (2011). Introduction to Data Mining. In: Data Mining. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19721-5_1
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