Machine Learning with R Cookbook - Softcover

Yu-Wei Chiu (David Chiu)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783982047 ISBN 13: 9781783982042

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

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

About This Book

• 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 from the churn dataset,applying different classification methods.

Who This Book Is For

If you want to learn how to use R for machine learning and gain insights from your data, then this book is ideal for you. Regardless of your level of experience, this book covers the basics of applying R to machine learning through to advanced techniques. While it is helpful if you are familiar with basic programming or machine learning concepts, you do not require prior experience to benefit from this book.

In Detail

The R language is a powerful open source functional programming language. At its core, R is a statistical programming language that provides impressive tools to analyze data and create high-level graphics.

This book covers the basics of R by setting up a user-friendly programming environment and performing data ETL in R. Data exploration examples are provided that demonstrate how powerful data visualization and machine learning is in discovering hidden relationships. You will then dive into important machine learning topics, including data classification, regression, clustering, association rule mining, and dimension reduction.

About this title

About the Author

Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu) is the founder of LargitData (www.LargitData.com). He has previously worked for Trend Micro as a software engineer, with the responsibility of building big data platforms for business intelligence and customer relationship management systems. In addition to being a start-up entrepreneur and data scientist, he specializes in using Spark and Hadoop to process big data and apply data mining techniques for data analysis. Yu-Wei is also a professional lecturer and has delivered lectures on Python, R, Hadoop, and tech talks at a variety of conferences. In 2013, Yu-Wei reviewed Bioinformatics with R Cookbook, Packt Publishing. For more information, please visit his personal website at www.ywchiu.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783982047
• ISBN 13: 9781783982042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 442