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R Machine Learning Essentials

By : Michele Usuelli
Book Image

R Machine Learning Essentials

By: Michele Usuelli

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
R Machine Learning Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Overview of Machine Learning Techniques

There are different machine learning techniques and this chapter gives an overview of the most relevant ones. Some of them have already been introduced in the previous chapters and some are new.

In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:

  • The most relevant branches of techniques: supervised and unsupervised learning

  • Making predictions with supervised learning

  • Identifying hidden patterns and structures with unsupervised learning

  • Pros and cons of these techniques