Contents LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................. xv LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................xix PREFACE ...............................................................................................................xxi Updated and Revised Content ........................................................................... xxv Second Edition ............................................................................................... xxv Third Edition .................................................................................................xxvi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ....................................................................................xxix ABOUT THE AUTHORS ..................................................................................xxxiii PART I INTRODUCTION TO DATA MINING 1.1 Data Mining and Machine Learning .............................................. 3 Describing Structural Patterns ........................................................ 5 Machine Learning ........................................................................... 7 Data Mining .................................................................................... 8 Simple Examples: The Weather Problem and Others .................... 9 The Weather Problem ..................................................................... 9 CHAPTER 1 What's It All About? ................................................................ 3 1.2