I had the luck of being taught by Prof. Meira - who is one hell of a professor - while this book was in draft stage. Here you'll find not only a great toolkit of techniques of data mining, but more importantly, a very comprehensive arsenal of concepts to properly analyse your data and the results of the techniques applied.<p>As grizzlon said in a sibling comment, you'll find the chapter dependencies on page 10, in case you need to look up/learn something specific on demand.
This is great, I've been looking for something like this, to refresh and build on a class I took in college. To my surprise, this is my professor's actual book I look forward to reading the book again. Thanks!
Thank you for the PDF. I am a math major and have been feeling rather bummed that I haven't had much of a chance to learn techniques for data analysis, so this is really appreciated.