Re: DM: Book on datamining

[Omer F Rana]

} Well I'll throw my 5 cents in. There are a plethora of books on 
neural
} networks, some very theoretical. Most of the theoretical books are 
writte=
} n
} from an engineering viewpoint rather than a statistical/data 
analysis one.
} Thus I've yet to find what I would consider a great textbook on NNs.
} 
} However, there are a few books that are worth considering:
} 
} 1. Joseph Bigus' book is a good introduction for business users who
} =A0=A0=A0 wish to know more about NNs.
} 2. Jeanette Lawrence's into to NN's is a good primer for people with
} =A0=A0 some math background.
} 3. Christopher Bishop's book on Pattern Recognition and 
Classification is
} excellent,
} although one should have a good knowledge of NN basics as well as a 
stron=
} g math
} background.
} 
} Andrew A. Kramer, Ph.D.
} Future Analytics, Inc.

Hi,
 
I thought Simon Haykin's book was brilliant. There are also lots
of good web sites around. Warren Sarle's FAQ is probably a great 
starting point. Just to plug my own links, you can also get some
useful stuff (or not) from: 
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/neural.html

I have also heard good things about the book by Brian Ripley called
"Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks". This is particularly good 
if you use the statistics packages SAS or S-Plus. Professor Ripley 
has a way with words. 

However, the initial question was more diverse. If you want Data 
Mining,
then other books by Quinlan, such as C4.5 is also very readable. 

Come to think of it -- I have not seen one 'GOOD' book on data mining.
Most talk about databases or how to obtain 'business advantage'
from data mining -- and just skim over the algorithm bits. 

A good recent magazine is 'Scientific Data Management' -- definately
worth a browse.

regards
Omer

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