foreword .
preface
1 introduction
1.1 what motivated data mining? why is it important?
1.2 so, what is data mining?
1.3 data mining--on what kind of data?
1.4 data mining functionalities?what kinds of patterns can be mined?
1.5 are all of the patterns interesting?
1.6 classification of data mining systems
1.7 data mining task primitives
1.8 integration of a data mining system with a database or data warehouse system
1.9 major issues in data mining
1.10 summary
1.11 exercises
1.12 bibliographic notes
2 data preprocessing
2.1 why preprocess the data?
2.2 descriptive data summarization
2.3 data cleaning
2.4 data integration and transformation