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R Data Mining

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R Data Mining

Overview of this book

R is widely used to leverage data mining techniques across many different industries, including finance, medicine, scientific research, and more. This book will empower you to produce and present impressive analyses from data, by selecting and implementing the appropriate data mining techniques in R. It will let you gain these powerful skills while immersing in a one of a kind data mining crime case, where you will be requested to help resolving a real fraud case affecting a commercial company, by the mean of both basic and advanced data mining techniques. While moving along the plot of the story you will effectively learn and practice on real data the various R packages commonly employed for this kind of tasks. You will also get the chance of apply some of the most popular and effective data mining models and algos, from the basic multiple linear regression to the most advanced Support Vector Machines. Unlike other data mining learning instruments, this book will effectively expose you the theory behind these models, their relevant assumptions and when they can be applied to the data you are facing. By the end of the book you will hold a new and powerful toolbox of instruments, exactly knowing when and how to employ each of them to solve your data mining problems and get the most out of your data. Finally, to let you maximize the exposure to the concepts described and the learning process, the book comes packed with a reproducible bundle of commented R scripts and a practical set of data mining models cheat sheets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
14
Epilogue

Chapter 11. The Final Clash – Random Forests and Ensemble Learning

I am not saying you reported to Mr. Leveque about this investigation,I am just saying that I got to know about it! You suddenly hear the unpleasant and unusually loud voice of Mr. Clough shouting out. Next to him is your head, Mr Sheene, looking quite intimidated.

Mr. Clough, I do not know who revealed this investigation to Mr. Leveque, and I sincerely hope you are not even supposing that me or one of my collaborators did it.

I am an auditor and I do not suppose anything, I only draw conclusions from evidence, and at the moment I don't have any evidence, except that Mr. Leveque is aware of our investigation. What we have to do now is close our analyses as quick as possible to avoid him or anyone that could be involved in this strange episode adopting some kind of counter move.

We are fairly collaborating to the analyses and we are close to being able to provide you with the list of customers we promised. I will tell you more...