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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
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Epilogue

Ensemble learning


What we have to do now is gather signals we can draw from different models into one final prediction, so we can select from Middle East customers a list of probably defaulted customers to be sent to the internal audit team.

How would you seek this objective? Imagine you are chilling out with your friends at a pub when you suddenly start talking about your next vacation. You tell them that you are probably going to choose Austria as a destination, even if you don't know if your are going to like it.

Your friends, who really care about your well-being and love you, start sharing their opinions with you. One of them says you are not going to have a good time there because of the cold, one says you are not going to like it because of the humidity, and this goes on until all of your friends have shared their opinion with you. You now know that five of your friends think you are not going to have good time in Austria, while three think you are going to have a great vacation. What...