Jiawei Han

I did not finish this book. Due to medical reasons, I ended up dropping the course for which it was assigned. That was not a disappointing moment for me. Rather I saw it as a reprieve from further reading of this text, which I found very boring and loathed to pick up. It did not help that the professor was also pretty crummy. He did nothing but read his slides (not very eloquently either). And about 80% of the content of the slides were taken directly from the book.

A lot of data mining texts show more cite this book, so I suppose there must be something good about it. The content is accurate and only slightly stale. But the presentation is very utilitarian. Reading this textbook feels the same as reading an operating manual for an old printer, which is sad, because the topic of data mining is very intriguing.

There are lots of data mining books on the market. If you are new to the subject, I would suggest you start with something other than this one. show less