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R Machine Learning By Example. Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully

R Machine Learning By Example. Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully

Dipanjan Sarkar, Raghav Bali

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Data science and machine learning are some of the top buzzwords in the technical world today. From retail stores to Fortune 500 companies, everyone is working hard to making machine learning give them data-driven insights to grow their business. With powerful data manipulation features, machine learning packages, and an active developer community, R empowers users to build sophisticated machine learning systems to solve real-world data problems.

This book takes you on a data-driven journey that starts with the very basics of R and machine learning and gradually builds upon the concepts to work on projects that tackle real-world problems.

You’ll begin by getting an understanding of the core concepts and definitions required to appreciate machine learning algorithms and concepts. Building upon the basics, you will then work on three different projects to apply the concepts of machine learning, following current trends and cover major algorithms as well as popular R packages in detail. These projects have been neatly divided into six different chapters covering the worlds of e-commerce, finance, and social-media, which are at the very core of this data-driven revolution. Each of the projects will help you to understand, explore, visualize, and derive insights depending upon the domain and algorithms.

Through this book, you will learn to apply the concepts of machine learning to deal with data-related problems and solve them using the powerful yet simple language, R.
  • 1. Getting Started
  • 2. Let’s help Machines Learn Something
  • 3. Predicting Customer Shopping Trends with Market Basket Analysis
  • 4. Building a Product Recommendation System
  • 5. Sales Fraud Detection and Prediction - Descriptive Analytics
  • 6. Sales Fraud Detection and Prediction - Predictive Analytics
  • 7. Social Media Analysis - Analyzing Twitter Data
  • 8. Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data
  • Title: R Machine Learning By Example. Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully
  • Author: Dipanjan Sarkar, Raghav Bali
  • Original title: R Machine Learning By Example. Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully
  • ISBN: 9781784392635, 9781784392635
  • Date of issue: 2016-03-31
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bm4
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing