Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition

Analyze data and build predictive models

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

Paid access

|Jul 2025

E-Book €32.99Institutions €132.95

Description

Explore over 110 recipes to analyze data and build predictive models with simple and easy-to-use R code

Key Features

Apply R to simplify predictive modeling with short and simple code
Use machine learning to solve problems ranging from small to big data
Build a training and testing dataset, applying different classification methods.

Book Description

Big data has become a popular buzzword across many industries. An increasing number of people have been exposed to the term and are looking at how to leverage big data in their own businesses, to improve sales and profitability. However, collecting, aggregating, and visualizing data is just one part of the equation. Being able to extract useful information from data is another task, and a much more challenging one. Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition uses a practical approach to teach you how to perform machine learning with R. Each chapter is divided into several simple recipes. Through the step-by-step instructions provided in each recipe, you will be able to construct a predictive model by using a variety of machine learning packages. In this book, you will first learn to set up the R environment and use simple R commands to explore data. The next topic covers how to perform statistical analysis with machine learning analysis and assess created models, covered in detail later on in the book. You'll also learn how to integrate R and Hadoop to create a big data analysis platform. The detailed illustrations provide all the information required to start applying machine learning to individual projects. With Machine Learning with R Cookbook, machine learning has never been easier.

What you will learn

Create and inspect transaction datasets and perform association analysis with the Apriori algorithm
Visualize patterns and associations using a range of graphs and find frequent item-sets using the Eclat algorithm
Compare differences between each regression method to discover how they solve problems
Detect and impute missing values in air quality data
Predict possible churn users with the classification approach
Plot the autocorrelation function with time series analysis
Use the Cox proportional hazards model for survival analysis
Implement the clustering method to segment customer data
Compress images with the dimension reduction method
Incorporate R and Hadoop to solve machine learning problems on big data

Who this book is for

This book is for data science professionals, data analysts, or people who have used R for data analysis and machine learning who now wish to become the go-to person for machine learning with R. Those who wish to improve the efficiency of their machine learning models and need to work with different kinds of data set will find this book very insightful.