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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

Summary


And you just added one more sharp tool into your toolbox! This chapter was surely less intense than the previous one; nevertheless, it gifted you a relevant edge for crafting reports about your data mining activity. 

The first relevant point you learned within the chapter is that a report, in order to be effective, has to respect some core principles mainly related with clearness of objectives and assumptions, consistency, and replicability of results.

Furthermore, you learned how to set up and fill down an rmarkdown report composed of markdown slices of text and r code chunks. This powerful instrument lets you create reports made on your R code and easily update the results as the data changes.

Finally, you got in touch with the fast-growing world of the Shiny app, a complete ecosystem for web application development and deployment.

Your job is done at Hippalus Inc., but if you look after this page, something interesting is waiting for you. You get closer to discovering the cause of...