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Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)
Book Image

Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu)

Overview of this book

Big data has become a popular buzzword across many industries. An increasing number of people have been exposed to the term and are looking at how to leverage big data in their own businesses, to improve sales and profitability. However, collecting, aggregating, and visualizing data is just one part of the equation. Being able to extract useful information from data is another task, and a much more challenging one. Machine Learning with R Cookbook, Second Edition uses a practical approach to teach you how to perform machine learning with R. Each chapter is divided into several simple recipes. Through the step-by-step instructions provided in each recipe, you will be able to construct a predictive model by using a variety of machine learning packages. In this book, you will first learn to set up the R environment and use simple R commands to explore data. The next topic covers how to perform statistical analysis with machine learning analysis and assess created models, covered in detail later on in the book. You'll also learn how to integrate R and Hadoop to create a big data analysis platform. The detailed illustrations provide all the information required to start applying machine learning to individual projects. With Machine Learning with R Cookbook, machine learning has never been easier.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Mining frequent sequential patterns with cSPADE


In contrast to association mining, which only discovers relationships between itemsets, we may be interested in exploring patterns shared among transactions where a set of itemsets occur sequentially.

One of the most famous frequent sequential pattern mining algorithms is the Sequential PAttern Discovery using Equivalence Classes (SPADE) algorithm, which employs the characteristics of a vertical database to perform an intersection on an ID list with an efficient lattice search and allows us to place constraints on mined sequences. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to use cSPADE to mine frequent sequential patterns.

Getting ready

In this recipe, you have to complete the previous recipes by generating transactions with the temporal information and have it stored in the trans variable.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps to mine the frequent sequential patterns:

  1. First, you can use the cspade function to generate frequent sequential patterns...