This is very likely the worst book I have ever seen.
Some chapters are barely longer than one (1! and I
am not kidding!) page and merly point to the one
reference, which is - surprise - written by the same
author. There are also chapters that are bit longer
but highly reduandant to other material in the
book - a section on data visualization shows pretty
much the same pictures and graphs than the one on model
visualization. The book does not even attempt to be
consistent or have any flow besides a rough grouping
into a couple of categories.
I find it disturbing that such a bad collection of
obviously non-edited abstracts and papers makes it
into a book. I guess the editors (or publisher?) just
assumed that something with "visualization" and "data
mining" in the title would sell no matter what?