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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 14. Epilogue

It's a quiet day at the Hippalus inc. like it was three months ago when the amazing drop in revenues was found. You are sitting at your desk looking at the intranet news when suddenly an email pops-up in your inbox:

Extraordinary meeting @ the main meeting room at 9.00.

You ask some of your colleagues if they know what is going to happen during the meeting. Nobody actually knows, and since the time is getting closer to 9, you decide to get to the meeting room. At the time you get there, a small chat is going on, but as soon as you come into the room the chat almost stops. And it definitely stops once Andy also gets in the room.

Dear colleagues, I have suddenly organized this meeting to share with you some good news. A sound of relief fills the room as soon as Mr. Sheen completes this pleasant sentence.

I was recently notified that the investigations on the revenues drop came to an end, and that end was a bad one. There is actually no great meaning in this talking, nevertheless...