Skillicorn, David

• Introduction. Data. High-Level Principles. Looking for Risk - Prediction and Anomaly Detection. Looking for Similarity – Clustering. Looking Inside Groups - Relationship Discovery. Discovery from Public Textual Data. Discovery in Private Communication. Discovering Mental and Emotional State. The Bottom Line.

The writing is organized, clear, and free of technical jargon and mathematical notation. ... In summary, this is a highly readable introduction to an interesting field. While it is certainly a valuable introductory resource for the technically adept, it is also appropriate for those with the desire to understand the applicability, potential, and limitations of computer-assisted knowledge discovery techniques in counterterrorism and law enforcement. -Computing Reviews, September 2009

Skillicorn, David

• Introduction. Data. High-Level Principles. Looking for Risk - Prediction and Anomaly Detection. Looking for Similarity – Clustering. Looking Inside Groups - Relationship Discovery. Discovery from Public Textual Data. Discovery in Private Communication. Discovering Mental and Emotional State. The Bottom Line.

The writing is organized, clear, and free of technical jargon and mathematical notation. ... In summary, this is a highly readable introduction to an interesting field. While it is certainly a valuable introductory resource for the technically adept, it is also appropriate for those with the desire to understand the applicability, potential, and limitations of computer-assisted knowledge discovery techniques in counterterrorism and law enforcement. -Computing Reviews, September 2009

Skillicorn, David

• Introduction. Data. High-Level Principles. Looking for Risk - Prediction and Anomaly Detection. Looking for Similarity – Clustering. Looking Inside Groups - Relationship Discovery. Discovery from Public Textual Data. Discovery in Private Communication. Discovering Mental and Emotional State. The Bottom Line.

The writing is organized, clear, and free of technical jargon and mathematical notation. ... In summary, this is a highly readable introduction to an interesting field. While it is certainly a valuable introductory resource for the technically adept, it is also appropriate for those with the desire to understand the applicability, potential, and limitations of computer-assisted knowledge discovery techniques in counterterrorism and law enforcement. -Computing Reviews, September 2009