Clustering (IEEE Press Series on Computational Intelligence)

This book covers the range of categorization algorithms very broadly and in an easily understood fashion, but without a lot of depth. Many software packages are mentioned and given a few paragraphs each. For my taste, too many pages are devoted to summaries of various applications rather than, say, more discussion of the relative merits of the different methods for different kinds of data. Basically, an excellent introduction to the field.

This book is written by my professor. He covers the material very closely aligned with the book making it very helpful to follow during the course.The homework problems are complex, but there are few due during the semester.

This is really excellent book as brings new methods compared to other ones on the same topic, which still presented the same information.