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R Data Mining

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R Data Mining

Overview of this book

R is widely used to leverage data mining techniques across many different industries, including finance, medicine, scientific research, and more. This book will empower you to produce and present impressive analyses from data, by selecting and implementing the appropriate data mining techniques in R. It will let you gain these powerful skills while immersing in a one of a kind data mining crime case, where you will be requested to help resolving a real fraud case affecting a commercial company, by the mean of both basic and advanced data mining techniques. While moving along the plot of the story you will effectively learn and practice on real data the various R packages commonly employed for this kind of tasks. You will also get the chance of apply some of the most popular and effective data mining models and algos, from the basic multiple linear regression to the most advanced Support Vector Machines. Unlike other data mining learning instruments, this book will effectively expose you the theory behind these models, their relevant assumptions and when they can be applied to the data you are facing. By the end of the book you will hold a new and powerful toolbox of instruments, exactly knowing when and how to employ each of them to solve your data mining problems and get the most out of your data. Finally, to let you maximize the exposure to the concepts described and the learning process, the book comes packed with a reproducible bundle of commented R scripts and a practical set of data mining models cheat sheets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Epilogue

A bit of history


When Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman published R: A Language for Data Analysis and Graphics in 1996, they probably didn't imagine the success the language would achieve between then and now. R was born at the University of Auckland in the early 1990s. In the beginning, it was supposed to be a user-friendly data analysis tool, employed by students to perform their research activities. Nevertheless, the points of strength we will look at in the following paragraphs quickly made it very popular among the wider community of researchers and data analysts, finally reaching the business realm in recent years and being used within major financial institutions.

R language development is currently led by the R core team, which releases updates of the base R language on a regular basis. You can discover more about the bureaucratic side of R by visiting the official R website at https://www.r-project.org/about.html.