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Hands-On Data Science with R

By : Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta, Doug Ortiz, Nataraj Dasgupta, Ricardo Anjoleto Farias
Book Image

Hands-On Data Science with R

By: Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta, Doug Ortiz, Nataraj Dasgupta, Ricardo Anjoleto Farias

Overview of this book

R is the most widely used programming language, and when used in association with data science, this powerful combination will solve the complexities involved with unstructured datasets in the real world. This book covers the entire data science ecosystem for aspiring data scientists, right from zero to a level where you are confident enough to get hands-on with real-world data science problems. The book starts with an introduction to data science and introduces readers to popular R libraries for executing data science routine tasks. This book covers all the important processes in data science such as data gathering, cleaning data, and then uncovering patterns from it. You will explore algorithms such as machine learning algorithms, predictive analytical models, and finally deep learning algorithms. You will learn to run the most powerful visualization packages available in R so as to ensure that you can easily derive insights from your data. Towards the end, you will also learn how to integrate R with Spark and Hadoop and perform large-scale data analytics without much complexity.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Quiz

  • Quiz-tion: Which of the following packages directly implement functions named after HTTP verbs such as GET and POST in R?
    1. ggplot2
    2. tidytext
    3. dplyr
    4. httr
  • Quiz-tion: Read the following statements and pick the wrong one:
    1. rvest and httr can be used to retrieve data from the web
    2. The gsub() function is useful to find and replace patterns
    3. Clustering analysis is only useful to the industry and does not have a single application to academic research
    4. The dendextend package is able to craft visualizations on the top of clusters
  • Quiz-tion: Which of the following packages offers an easy interface to the interact with Twitter's API?
    1. httr
    2. rvest
    3. rtweet
    4. not

Answersexecuting the following code will give you the answers to the quiz questions:

set.seed(8080)
round(runif(3,1,4))

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