Three perspectives of data mining

    three recent books on data mining written from three different perspectives, i.e.databases, machine learning, and statistics. 

    The first one, J. Han and M. Kamber’s Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques (Morgan Kaufmann,2001) ,as the authors admitted: “we present the material in this book from a database perspective”, was written from a database perspective. The second one, I. H. Witten and E. Frank’s Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000), as the title of the book suggests, was obviously written from a machine learning perspective. Finally,Principles of Data Mining (MIT Press, 2001) by D. Hand, H. Mannila, and P. Smyth, was written from the statistics perspective, as the authors said: “we take a fairly strong statistical view of data mining in this text”.

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