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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

Acquiring and preparing your banking data


The first step in getting this accomplished is to download our banking data from our bank's website. Obviously, I am not going to describe how to do this for every bank's website, and you should look on your own bank's website, probably within the account movements section.

If you don't have a bank account, or your bank doesn't let you download your data, you shouldn't despair, just look at the additional material provided together with the book, and you will find a folder named data containing, among other things, an XLS file named banking. You can safely use this for your experiments.

Data model

Let's have a closer look at how our data will have to be structured to accomplish the task, that is, let's describe our data model.

This concept is actually employed when dealing with a more structured set of data, such as groups of tables, but can nevertheless be applied to our purposes as well.

Describing a data model means to describe how you are going to...