Data Mining Resources
                                         







     Useful Books:

         Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques By Jiawei Han and Micheline, Kamber, Morgan Kaufmann

         Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Technique, By Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank

         Data Mining Techniques : For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management by Michael J. A.             Berry, Gordon S. Linoff

         The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

         Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte

         Mining the Web: Transforming Customer Data By Michael J. A. Berry

         Building Data Mining Applications for CRM By Alex Berson, Stephen Smith, Kurt Thearling

     Conferences:

         2006 December, Hongkong:
           IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-06)
           http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~wii06/icdm/

         April 20-22, 2006, Maryland
           SIAM Conference on Data Mining
           http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm06

         April 30-May 3, 2006, San Francisco
           Interact from Fair-Isaac
           http://www.fairisaac.com/Fairisaac/Events/InterACT

         SAS M2005
           http://www.sas.com/events/dmconf/index.html
          
         SIGKDD
           http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/
          

     Contests:

         Data Mining Cup: Organized by Prudsys
           http://www.data-mining-cup.com/

         University of California Data Mining Contest 2006
           http://mill.ucsd.edu

         ACM KDD Cup 2006
           http://www.kdd2006.com/kddcup.html

         PAKDD 2006 Data Mining Competition
           http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/pakdd2006/competition/overview.htm

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