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Topics Covered are
The Foundations of Data Mining
The Scope of Data Mining
How Data Mining Works
An Architecture for Data Mining
Glossary of Data Mining Terms
Classical Techniques: Statistics, Neighborhoods and Clustering
What is different between statistics and data mining?
Histograms
Statistics for Prediction
Linear regression
A simple example of clustering
How to use Nearest Neighbor for Prediction
Using nearest neighbor for stock market data
What is a Decision Tree?
Applying decision trees to Business
Using decision trees for Exploration
Using decision trees for Data Preprocessing
CART Surrogates handle missing data
What is a Neural Network?
Applying Neural Networks to Business
Neural Networks for feature extraction
What does a neural net look like?
How is the neural net model created?
Understanding Data Mining: It's All in the Interaction

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