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"Digging Bit by Bit": Review of Principles of Data Mining by David Hand, Heikki Mannila and Padhraic Smyth. Reviewed by Michael W. Berry. American Scientist, September-October 2002, page 484.
The book's authors are a statistician, a specialist in databases, and a computer scientist, respectively. Berry writes that in the book, "Hand and his coauthors pursue both statistical and computational issues in dealing with large data sets, stressing the mathematical models and computational algorithms used to characterize and mine digital information." As a textbook, the book is said to be suitable for senior undergraduates or first-year graduate students. In this regard, Berry states that "The book's coverage and presentations of topics is excellent," but he found it "lacking as a textbook." For example, there are no exercises at the end of chapters.
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