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R Data Science Essentials

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R Data Science Essentials

Overview of this book

With organizations increasingly embedding data science across their enterprise and with management becoming more data-driven it is an urgent requirement for analysts and managers to understand the key concept of data science. The data science concepts discussed in this book will help you make key decisions and solve the complex problems you will inevitably face in this new world. R Data Science Essentials will introduce you to various important concepts in the field of data science using R. We start by reading data from multiple sources, then move on to processing the data, extracting hidden patterns, building predictive and forecasting models, building a recommendation engine, and communicating to the user through stunning visualizations and dashboards. By the end of this book, you will have an understanding of some very important techniques in data science, be able to implement them using R, understand and interpret the outcomes, and know how they helps businesses make a decision.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
R Data Science Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We acquired the capability to build the logistic as well as linear regression models. You also learned to evaluate the model internally on the given dataset by randomly splitting them into two different datasets, read the output of the models, make business interpretations, and some really important techniques that can be used to improve the accuracy of the model. Most importantly, you learned the scenarios in which these algorithms can be of use to us.

In the next chapter, we will cover the forecasting based on the time series data, which can be really helpful in predicting sales, and help us plan accordingly.