Data Preparation & Mining

Focusing on the future of data mining, this volume addresses a variety of emerging data mining challenges and potential solutions. It shows how innovative data mining tools and techniques can be applied in a range of areas, including e-science, engineering, social science, ecology, finance, and medi..

The theme of this book is simple. The price, the number someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product, comes from data. Specifically, it comes from statistically modeling the data._x005F_x000D_ This book gives the reader the statistical modeling tools needed to get the numbe..

Scientific knowledge is doubling every 10 to 15 years worldwide. Who generates this knowledge? Where is this information stored? How is it being utilized? These are some issues addressed in this book on data analytics and scientometrics, which brings together scientific production, research evaluati..

Security and Policy Driven Computing covers recent advances in security, storage, parallelization, and computing as well as applications in engineering design, implementation, and deployment. It also looks to future research and technologies that will propel the innovation of next-generation systems..

This book focuses on the basic concepts and the related technologies of data mining for social medial. Topics include: big data and social data, data mining for making a hypothesis, multivariate analysis for verifying the hypothesis, web mining and media mining, natural language processing, social b..

This book introduces a new mechanism for representing social networks in which pairwise relationships can be drawn from a range of realistic possibilities, including different types of relationships, different strengths in the directions of a pair, positive and negative relationships, and relationsh..

This new second edition demystifies the concepts of spatial data accuracy and provides mathematical clarity to issues of network accuracy and local accuracy. Ideal for both beginner and advanced levels, this book also provides guidance and insight on how to link to the data collected and stored in l..

Incorporating research from a range of disciplines, this book provides an accessible and engaging explanation of Web 2.0 and its wider context yet is still grounded in the rigor of computer science. The author discusses the underlying ideas and principles and covers the main types of Web 2.0 service..