RapidMiner ─ Data Mining Use Cases and Business Analytics Applications

RapidMiner is one of the most widely used open source data mining solutions world-wide. This book provides an application use case-based introduction to data mining and to RapidMiner (and RapidAnalytics.) It presents many different applications of data mining and how to implement them with RapidMiner, and it allows readers to get started with their own data mining applications with RapidMiner, or other similar tools. The software, the data sets, and RapidMiner data mining processes used and discussed in the book are made available to readers.

Markus Hofmann is a lecturer at the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown, where he focuses on data mining, text mining, data exploration and visualization, and business intelligence. Dr. Hofmann is a member of the Register of Expert Panellists of the Irish Higher Education and Training Awards council, an external examiner to two other third-level institutes, and a specialist in undergraduate and postgraduate course development. He received his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Ralf Klinkenberg is the co-founder of Rapid-I and CBDO of Rapid-I Germany. Rapid-I is the company behind the open source software solution RapidMiner and its server version RapidAnalytics. Mr. Klinkenberg has more than 15 years of consulting and training experience in data mining and RapidMiner-based solutions. He received his MS in computer science from the Technical University of Dortmund and Missouri University of Science and Technology.