"Foreword Big data and analytics promise to change virtually every industry and business function over the next decade. Any organization that gets started early with big data can gain a significant competitive edge. Just as early analytical competitors in the "small data" era (including Capital...

Overview of the data mining process -- Data visualization -- Dimension reduction -- Evaluating predictive performance -- Multiple linear regression -- k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) -- The Naive Bayes classifier -- Classification and regression trees -- Logistic regression -- Neural nets --...

Why and what is data mining? -- The virtuous cycle of data mining -- Data mining methodology and best practices -- Data mining applications in marketing and customer relationship management -- The lure of statistics: data mining using familiar tools -- Decision trees -- Artificial neural...