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Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau

By : Ruben Oliva Ramos, Jen Stirrup, Roberto Rösler
Book Image

Advanced Analytics with R and Tableau

By: Ruben Oliva Ramos, Jen Stirrup, Roberto Rösler

Overview of this book

Tableau and R offer accessible analytics by allowing a combination of easy-to-use data visualization along with industry-standard, robust statistical computation. Moving from data visualization into deeper, more advanced analytics? This book will intensify data skills for data viz-savvy users who want to move into analytics and data science in order to enhance their businesses by harnessing the analytical power of R and the stunning visualization capabilities of Tableau. Readers will come across a wide range of machine learning algorithms and learn how descriptive, prescriptive, predictive, and visually appealing analytical solutions can be designed with R and Tableau. In order to maximize learning, hands-on examples will ease the transition from being a data-savvy user to a data analyst using sound statistical tools to perform advanced analytics. By the end of this book, you will get to grips with advanced calculations in R and Tableau for analytics and prediction with the help of use cases and hands-on examples.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

Decision trees in Tableau using R


When the data has a lot of features that interact in complicated non-linear ways, it is hard to find a global regression model, that is, a single predictive formula that holds over the entire dataset. An alternative approach is to partition the space into smaller regions, then into sub-partitions (recursive partitioning) until each chunk can be explained with a simple model.

There are two main types of decision trees:

  • Classification trees: Predicted outcome is the class the data belongs to

  • Regression trees: Predicted outcome is a continuous variable, for example, a real number such as the price of a commodity

There are many ensemble machine learning methods that take advantage of decision trees. Perhaps the best known is the Random Forest classifier that constructs multiple decision trees and outputs the class that corresponds to the mode of the classes output by individual trees.