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Machine Learning with R - Third Edition

By : Brett Lantz
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Machine Learning with R - Third Edition

By: Brett Lantz

Overview of this book

Machine learning, at its core, is concerned with transforming data into actionable knowledge. R offers a powerful set of machine learning methods to quickly and easily gain insight from your data. Machine Learning with R, Third Edition provides a hands-on, readable guide to applying machine learning to real-world problems. Whether you are an experienced R user or new to the language, Brett Lantz teaches you everything you need to uncover key insights, make new predictions, and visualize your findings. This new 3rd edition updates the classic R data science book to R 3.6 with newer and better libraries, advice on ethical and bias issues in machine learning, and an introduction to deep learning. Find powerful new insights in your data; discover machine learning with R.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Machine Learning with R - Third Edition
Contributors
Preface
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Index

Summary


Our findings support the popular adage that "birds of a feather flock together." By using machine learning methods to cluster teenagers with others who have similar interests, we were able to develop a typology of teenage identities that was predictive of personal characteristics such as gender and number of friends. These same methods can be applied to other contexts with similar results.

This chapter covered only the fundamentals of clustering. There are many variants of the k-means algorithm, as well as many other clustering algorithms that bring unique biases and heuristics to the task. Based on the foundation in this chapter, you will be able to understand these clustering methods and apply them to new problems.

In the next chapter, we will begin to look at methods for measuring the success of a learning algorithm that are applicable across many machine learning tasks. While our process has always devoted some effort to evaluating the success of learning, in order to obtain the...