Top 10 Amazon Books in Data Mining – 2016 Edition

The recent explosion of interest in data science, data mining, and related disciplines has been mirrored by an explosion in book titles on these same topics. One of the best ways to decide which books could be useful for your career is to look at which books others are reading. This post details the 10 most popular titles in Amazon's Data Mining Books category as of Nov 10, 2016, skipping over repeated titles as well as titles which have been obviously miscategorized and are of no use to our readers. This book describes the important ideas in these areas in a common conceptual framework. While the approach is statistical, the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics.