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Learning Predictive Analytics with R

Get to grips with key data visualization and predictive analytic skills using R

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Eric Mayor  
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|Oct 2015
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Get to grips with key data visualization and predictive analytic skills using R

Key Features

  • Acquire predictive analytic skills using various tools of R
  • Make predictions about future events by discovering valuable information from data using R
  • Comprehensible guidelines that focus on predictive model design with real-world data

Book Description

This book is packed with easy-to-follow guidelines that explain the workings of the many key data mining tools of R, which are used to discover knowledge from your data.
You will learn how to perform key predictive analytics tasks using R, such as train and test predictive models for classification and regression tasks, score new data sets and so on. All chapters will guide you in acquiring the skills in a practical way. Most chapters also include a theoretical introduction that will sharpen your understanding of the subject matter and invite you to go further.
The book familiarizes you with the most common data mining tools of R, such as k-means, hierarchical regression, linear regression, association rules, principal component analysis, multilevel modeling, k-NN, Naïve Bayes, decision trees, and text mining. It also provides a description of visualization techniques using the basic visualization tools of R as well as lattice for visualizing patterns in data organized in groups. This book is invaluable for anyone fascinated by the data mining opportunities offered by GNU R and its packages.

What you will learn

  • Customize R by installing and loading new packages
  • Explore the structure of data using clustering algorithms
  • Turn unstructured text into ordered data, and acquire knowledge from the data
  • Classify your observations using Naïve Bayes, k-NN, and decision trees
  • Reduce the dimensionality of your data using principal component analysis
  • Discover association rules using Apriori
  • Understand how statistical distributions can help retrieve information from data using correlations, linear regression, and multilevel regression
  • Use PMML to deploy the models generated in R

Who this book is for

If you are a statistician, chief information officer, data scientist, ML engineer, ML practitioner, quantitative analyst, and student of machine learning, this is the book for you. You should have basic knowledge of the use of R. Readers without previous experience of programming in R will also be able to use the tools in the book.

Table of Contents

  1. Setting GNU R for predictive modeling
  2. Basic data visualization with tools built-in in R
  3. Data visualization with lattice
  4. Unsupervized learning: clustering with k-means
  5. Unsupervized learning: Hierarchical clustering
  6. Unsupervized learning: Principal Component Analysis
  7. Unsupervized learning: market basket analyses with Apriori (association rules)
  8. Probability Distributions, Covariance, and Correlation
  9. Regression
  10. Classification with na
  11. Decision trees
  12. Multilevel regression in R
  13. Text Analytics with R
  14. PMML
  15. Appendix, Solution to exercises
  16. References
https://github.com/packtpublishing/learning-predictive-analytics-with-r
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78216-936-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 332
Related subjects:
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