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Machine Learning with R

Expert techniques for predictive modeling to solve all your data analysis problems

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|Aug 2015
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Key Features

    Book Description

    What you will learn

    • Harness the power of R to build common machine learning algorithms with realworld data science applications
    • Get to grips with techniques in R to clean and prepare your data for analysis and visualize your results
    • Discover the different types of machine learning models and learn what is best to meet your data needs and solve data analysis problems
    • Classify your data with Bayesian and nearest neighbour methods
    • Predict values using R to build decision trees, rules, and support vector machines
    • Forecast numeric values with linear regression and model your data with neural networks
    • Evaluate and improve the performance of machine learning models
    • Learn specialized machine learning techniques for text mining, social network data, and big data

    Who this book is for

    Perhaps you already know a bit about machine learning but have never used R, or perhaps you know a little R but are new to machine learning. In either case, this book will get you up and running quickly. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic programming concepts, but no prior experience is required.

    Table of Contents

    1. Introducing Machine Learning
    2. Managing and Understanding Data
    3. Lazy Learning: Classification using Nearest Neighbors
    4. Probabilistic Learning: Classification using Naïve Bayes
    5. Divide and Conquer: Classification using Trees and Rules
    6. Forecasting Numeric Data: Regression Methods
    7. Black Box Methods: Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines
    8. Finding Patterns: Market Basket Analysis Using Association Rules
    9. Finding Groups of Data: Clustering with k-means
    10. Evaluating Model Performance
    11. Improving Model Performance
    12. Specialized Machine Learning Topics
    https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Machine-Learning-with-R-Second-Edition
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-452-3
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2015
    Language: English
    Pages: 452