

Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series (Book 33)
Hardcover: 525 pages
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC (October 25, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1482205491
ISBN-13: 978-1482205497
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.3 x 10.1 inches
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Rapidminer is a great tool, but to me, suffered from abysmal documentation.So, when Matthew North came out with "Data Mining for the Masses", I was both happy (great explanations in all the chapters) and hoping that he would release a second version of his book. So far, no.Instead, this book was published. It is edited by Markus Hofmann, and contains 24-chapters which were cobbled together from outside sources. So, I was expecting something similar to North's book.Not quite.Pros:1. 24 (actually 23 if you don't count the introductory chapter) fairly detailed use cases for a number of different projects.2. All of the processes can be found on the rapidminerbook.com site.3. Advanced use of Rapidminer. Personally, I think a bit of overkill for beginners but experienced uses will love the examples.Cons:1. The book to me is a series of 23-use cases. They define the problem and offer the process diagram then stop. Most of the chapters do not even discuss what happens if you execute the process and explain how to interpret the results. This is what is significantly different from North, and if you are using a process that you are unfamiliar with, isn't a good thing.2. The editor was lazy. Instead of creating 1-zip file with all the processes in it, labeled by chapter, there are 24-different files to download from the website. And, some are labeled "Chapter 12" or something altogether different.3. Some of the data files that the processes seem to need are missing and I have had difficulty in getting the same results on some of the processes. One of the processes is just plain wrong (it's right in the book though), and Chapter 17…still can't get it to work.
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