To the Instructor

This book is designed to give a broad, yet detailed overview of the data mining field. It can be used to teach an introductory course on data mining at an advanced undergraduate level or at the first-year graduate level. Sample course syllabi are provided on the book’s web sites www.cs.uiuc.edu/~hanj/bk3 and www.booksite.mkp.com/datamining3e in addition to extensive teaching resources such as lecture slides, instructors’ manuals, and reading lists (see p. xxix).

Depending on the length of the instruction period, the background of students, and your interests, you may select subsets of chapters to teach in various sequential orderings. For example, if you would like to give only a short introduction to students on data mining, ...

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