data storage and management

I started to work in Data Mining about 7 years ago. I have read many books about this subject and nearly all of them have similar approaches and stress the importance of the data preparation but they all, except one, just discuss lightly this subject. I don't know any book that deal with data preparation as Pyle's book does. Each topic is discussed in-depth. This is a very clear and enjoyable book. I have tested all concepts and the results are amazing.

Chapter 11 introduces the Data Survey topic in which techniques based in Shannon's Information Theory are showed. These information theory approaches are simply wonderful and gives to the Data Mining subject the bases to get models that extract complete relevant information from the data.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to work seriously with Data Mining.

An excellent book. This book helped me to understand what data preparation is really about. Read this before start any data mining project.

This book by Dorian Pyle is excellent! It really helps explain the details of how you prepare your data so that data mining can be most effective. I highly recommend it.

Randy Collica
Sr. Business/Data Mining Analyst
Hewlett-Packard Co.