====== Reference Books ======
No textbook is required for the course. The following are reference books: 

  * Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber and Jian Pei, Data Mining -- Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann, Third Edition, 2011.

  * Charu C. Aggarwal, Data Mining, The Textbook, Springer, 2015.

  * Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach, Vipin Kumar, Introduction to Data Mining, Addison Wesley, 2006.

  * Ian H. Witten and Eibe Frank, Data Mining -- Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques (Second Edition), Morgan Kaufmann, 2005.

  * Margaret H. Dunham, Data Mining -- Introductory and Advanced Topics, Prentice Hall, 2003.

  * Mohammed J. Zaki and Wagner Meira, Jr., Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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