This article, an excerpt from “Java Data Mining: Strategy, Standard, and Practice” (Morgan Kaufman, 2007) explores data mining concepts in financial services by using a business problem faced ...

Data mining techniques have been widely used for extracting knowledge from large amounts of data. Monitoring deforestation is utmost important for the developing countries.

This course will cover statistical approaches to dimension reduction using principal components and factor analysis, and classification using discriminant functions. The first part will outline the ...