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Introduction to R for Business Intelligence

Introduction to R for Business Intelligence

By : Gendron
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Introduction to R for Business Intelligence

Introduction to R for Business Intelligence

By: Gendron

Overview of this book

Explore the world of Business Intelligence through the eyes of an analyst working in a successful and growing company. Learn R through use cases supporting different functions within that company. This book provides data-driven and analytically focused approaches to help you answer questions in operations, marketing, and finance. In Part 1, you will learn about extracting data from different sources, cleaning that data, and exploring its structure. In Part 2, you will explore predictive models and cluster analysis for Business Intelligence and analyze financial times series. Finally, in Part 3, you will learn to communicate results with sharp visualizations and interactive, web-based dashboards. After completing the use cases, you will be able to work with business data in the R programming environment and realize how data science helps make informed decisions and develops business strategy. Along the way, you will find helpful tips about R and Business Intelligence.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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A. References
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C. R Packages Used in the Book
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D. R Code for Supporting Market Segment Business Case Calculations

Introducing key elements of time series analysis


You just applied a linear regression model to time series data and saw it did not work. The biggest problem was not a failure in fitting a linear model to the trend. For this well-behaved time series, the average formed a linear plot over time. Where was the problem?

The problem was in seasonal fluctuations. The seasonal fluctuations were one year in length and then repeated. Most of the data points existed above and below the fitted line, instead of on it or near it. As we saw, the ability to make a point estimate prediction was poor. There is an old adage that says even a broken clock is correct twice a day. This is a good analogy for analyzing seasonal time series data with linear regression. The fitted linear line will be a good predictor twice every cycle. You will need to do something about the seasonal fluctuations in order to make better forecasts; otherwise, they will simply be straight lines with no account of the seasonality.

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