This book presents this new discipline in a very accessible form: as a text
both to train the next generation of practitioners and researchers and to inform
lifelong learners like myself. Witten and Frank have a passion for simple and
elegant solutions. They approach each topic with this mindset, grounding all
concepts in concrete examples, and urging the reader to consider the simple
techniques first, and then progress to the more sophisticated ones if the simple
ones prove inadequate.
