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Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau

By : Ruben Oliva Ramos, Jen Stirrup, Roberto Rösler
Book Image

Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau

By: Ruben Oliva Ramos, Jen Stirrup, Roberto Rösler

Overview of this book

Tableau and R offer accessible analytics by allowing a combination of easy-to-use data visualization along with industry-standard, robust statistical computation. Moving from data visualization into deeper, more advanced analytics? This book will intensify data skills for data viz-savvy users who want to move into analytics and data science in order to enhance their businesses by harnessing the analytical power of R and the stunning visualization capabilities of Tableau. Readers will come across a wide range of machine learning algorithms and learn how descriptive, prescriptive, predictive, and visually appealing analytical solutions can be designed with R and Tableau. In order to maximize learning, hands-on examples will ease the transition from being a data-savvy user to a data analyst using sound statistical tools to perform advanced analytics. By the end of this book, you will get to grips with advanced calculations in R and Tableau for analytics and prediction with the help of use cases and hands-on examples.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Team Data Science Process


The TDSP process model provides a dynamic framework to machine learning solutions that have been through a robust process of planning, producing, constructing, testing, and deploying models. Here is an example of the TDSP process:

The process is loosely divided into four main phases:

  • Business Understanding

  • Data Acquisition and Understanding

  • Modeling

  • Deployment

The phases are described in the following paragraphs.

Business understanding

The Business understanding process starts with a business idea, which is solved with a machine learning solution. The business idea is defined from the business perspective, and possible scenarios are identified and evaluated. Ultimately, a project plan is generated for delivering the solution.

Data acquisition and understanding

Following on from the business understanding phase is the data acquisition and understanding phase, which concentrates on...