Ian H. Witten Book order (chronological)

Web Dragons offers a perspective on the world of Web search and the effects of search engines and information availability on the present and future world. In the blink of an eye since the turn of the millennium, the lives of people who work with information have been utterly transformed. Everything we need to know is on the web. It's where we learn and play, shop and do business, keep up with old friends and meet new ones. Search engines make it possible for us to find the stuff we need to know. Search engines ― web dragons ― are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. How do they stack up against librarians, the gatekeepers over centuries past? What role will libraries play in a world whose information is ruled by the web? How is the web organized? Who controls its contents, and how do they do it? How do search engines work? How can web visibility be exploited by those who want to sell us their wares? What's coming tomorrow, and can we influence it? As we witness the dawn of a new era, this book shows readers what it will look like and how it will change their world. Whoever you are: if you care about information, this book will open your eyes and make you blink.

This fourth edition offers a comprehensive grounding in machine learning concepts and practical advice for real-world data mining applications. It covers everything from input preparation and output interpretation to evaluating results and the algorithmic methods central to successful data mining. The edition includes extensive updates reflecting recent technical advancements, with new chapters dedicated to probabilistic methods and deep learning. Additionally, it features a new version of the popular WEKA machine learning software from the University of Waikato. The authors, Witten, Frank, Hall, and Pal, integrate contemporary techniques with cutting-edge research methods. A companion website provides PowerPoint slides for Chapters 1-12, serving as a valuable teaching resource. The online appendix focuses on the Weka workbench, offering extensive learning aids for the accompanying open-source software. The table of contents highlights the new sections in this edition, along with reviews of the first edition and errata, ensuring a thorough educational experience for readers.

In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes , authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work with large quantities of information, this book is essential reading--an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges. It covers the latest developments in compression and indexing and their application on the Web and in digital libraries. It also details dozens of powerful techniques supported by mg, the authors' own system for compressing, storing, and retrieving text, images, and textual images. mg's source code is freely available on the Web.