Written by leaders in the data mining community, including the developers of the RapidMiner software, this book provides an in-depth introduction to the application of data mining and business analytics techniques and tools in scientific research, medicine, industry, commerce, and diverse other sectors. It presents the most powerful and flexible open source software solutions: RapidMiner and RapidAnalytics. The new edition will update all chapters to RapidMiner 7, and will add at least six new chapters, including new chapters on text mining, time series, and educational data mining.