V Technology now allows us to capture and store vast quantities of data. Finding patterns, trends, and anomalies
in these datasets, and summarizing them with simple quantitative models, is one of the grand challenges of the information
age - turning data into information and turning information into knowledge.
p.5 Data mining is about solving problems by analyzing data already present in databases.
p.25 Diagnosis is one of the principal application areas of expert systems... handcrafted rules
used in expert systems often perform well
p.30 One way of visualizing the problem of learning - and one that distinguishes it from
statistical approaches - is to imagine a search through a space of possible concept descriptions for one that fits
the data.
p.52 Preparing input for a data mining investigation usually consumes the bulk of the effort invested in
the entire data mining process.
