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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

Databases and data warehouses


It is now time to talk about the data warehouse and databases. We will have a look at their theoretical structure and some practical technology available on the market to build these kinds of instruments:

What is a data warehouse, and how is it different from a simple database?

A data warehouse is a software solution aimed at storing usually great amounts of data properly related among them and indexed through a time-related index. We can better understand this by looking at the data warehouse's cousin: the operational database.

These kinds of instruments are usually of small dimensions, and aimed at storing and inquiring data, overwriting old data when new data is available. Data warehouses are therefore usually fed by databases, and stores data from those kinds of sources ensuring a historical depth to them and read-only access from other users and software applications. Moreover, data warehouses are usually employed at a company level, to store, and make available...