Description this book introduces you to the several concepts of data mining and their practical implementation. It is written for the students of Indian Universities. You can also use this book as a self study guide to learn the data mining techniques. The book is suitable for a wide range of audiences and provides illustrations, table, algorithms and examples to understand the concepts and theories of data mining. In addition, this book consists of real life case studies for implementing data mining in several fields. This book starts with the basic concept of data mining and covers advanced topics in data mining such as text, web and special data mining and also discusses implementing data mining concepts in real life situation using various software such as SQL Server 2000, poly analyst, sinope summarizer and click tracks. Contents introduction to data mining data warehouse classification clustering association rules text mining web mining special data mining multimedia data mining using SQL Server 2000 analysis services introduction to poly analyst data mining in market analysis data mining in Banking Industry case study: healthcare analysis.