Textbook

The ``official'' (primary recommended) text for the class is:

• Witten, I. H and Frank, E., Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

It didn't get ordered to the bookstore, but I believe that you can order it through them or your favorite online book retailer.

Some other very useful texts include:

• Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., and Friedman, J. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Springer, 2001.
• Sutton, R. and Barto, A., Reinforcement Learning, MIT Press, 1998. (Available in full text online, if you look around a bit.)
• Hand, D., Mannila, H., and Smyth, P., Principles of Data Mining, MIT Press, 2001.
• Mitchell, T. M., Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, 1997.

I will attempt to make these available on reserve at the library, and may also be able to make electronic excerpts available as well.